Boehner-McConnell gap sign of trouble for DHS

They've known for months that Congress would face a late February deadline to keep the Department of Homeland Security running.

Yet the top Republican leaders in Congress -- House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell -- haven't talked to each other for two weeks until Wednesday.

That revelation was a clear sign that Congress is on the verge of letting the agency run out of money at the end of the day on Friday, furloughing some workers while requiring other to show up to work without being paid.

Both chambers of Congress are controlled by Republicans for the first time in nearly a decade, a fact that the new GOP majority hoped would unify their party.

But instead of working together to clear one of the first major legislative hurdles of the new Congress, McConne