"...About 42,000 active duty members of the Coast Guard would work without pay and nearly 34,000 retirees would have their retirement checks suspended if Congress can't settle an agreement over funding for the Department of Homeland Security by Friday.
Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Paul Zukunft said Monday that the Coast Guard operations in law enforcement to include drug interdictions and ship inspections would be curtailed if Congress failed to reach agreement on $40 billion in funding for DHS.
Fiscal Year 2015 funding for the Department of Homeland Security is tied to a bill that would scuttle the executive actions by President Obama on undocumented immigrants. The bill passed the House but has been dead locked by filibusters in the Senate..."