The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has officially shut down, but members of Congress will be on recess starting next week and will not reconvene until the week when Trump plans to deliver his State of the Union address — a reality that has raised concerns among some senior Republican lawmakers. They are worried that it would look bad for Trump to stand in the House chamber and claim "the country is strong" while the Department of Homeland Security remains shut down. A Republican member of the House said, "This certainly doesn't look like 'a Republican government operating smoothly with unified power.'" However, according to a White House official, there has been no discussion about postponing the State of the Union address so far.
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