Senators defend two-week recess as record-breaking government shutdown drags on

Thune under pressure to end two-week vacation amid record-long DHS shutdown

Lawmakers have left Washington during the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, leaving the Department of Homeland Security unfunded as pressure mounts on Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) to bring senators back. With both the Senate and the House on a two-week recess to observe Passover and Easter, the partial government shutdown has become…