Senate Democrats oppose funding after Minneapolis man shot by border patrol

Senate Democrats are poised to interrupt a fragile truce that might stop a partial authorities shutdown after a Minneapolis man was fatally shot by a Border Patrol agent on Saturday.

Democrats in Congress have been already cautious of funding the Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) within the wake of the company’s presence in Minnesota and past, however the capturing of 37-year-old Alex Pretti throughout an immigration enforcement operation has shattered what little unity that they had on the legislation.

Now Senate Democrats, led by Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer, plan to vote towards the laws, which is at the moment included in a broader funding package deal together with 5 different spending payments.

SENATE DEMOCRATS REBELL AGAINST THEIR OWN LEADERSHIP OVER THE DHS FUNDING PACKAGE, INCREASING THE LIKELIHOOD OF CLOSURE

Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., introduced that Senate Democrats wouldn’t assist a invoice to fund the Division of Homeland Safety following a deadly capturing involving a Border Patrol agent in Minnesota on Saturday. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Photographs)

Schumer mentioned in a press release Saturday that Democrats have been attempting to get “frequent sense reforms” into the DHS funding invoice, however charged that “due to Republicans’ refusal to face as much as President Trump, the DHS invoice is woefully insufficient to rein within the abuses” of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

“I’ll vote no,” Schumer mentioned. “Senate Democrats is not going to present the votes to maneuver ahead with the appropriations invoice if the DHS funding invoice is included.”

Schumer’s play name is a blow to Senate Republicans, who’ve labored with their colleagues throughout the aisle to seek out compromises, particularly within the DHS invoice. It additionally comes as the federal government’s funding deadline is quick approaching on Friday, January 30. Complicating issues additional is the Arctic storm sweeping by way of the nation, which has already pressured the Senate to cancel Monday’s votes.

A senior Senate aide advised Fox Information Digital that Senate Democrats had mentioned for weeks that they weren’t concerned with shutting down the federal government once more, and that till Saturday that they had praised the bipartisan nature of the federal government funding course of.

“These payments have been negotiated with Democrats – they agreed to what was in them,” they mentioned.

HOUSE JAMS SENATE BY AFFIRMING WITHDRAWAL OF JACK SMITH PROVISION TO $1.2T FUNDING PACKAGE

Protesters stand behind a barricade of trash cans as they collect close to the positioning the place state and native authorities say a person was shot and killed by federal brokers earlier within the morning in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 24, 2026. Federal immigration brokers shot and killed a person in Minneapolis on Saturday, officers mentioned — the second deadly capturing of a civilian within the metropolis, sparking new protests and outrage amongst authorities officers. The dying got here lower than three weeks after U.S. citizen Renee Good was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer concerned in sweeps to apprehend undocumented migrants. (Picture by ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP through Getty Photographs)

The company can be totally funded beneath the present proposal with a number of restrictions and reporting necessities that, if not met, would act as triggers to remove sure money flows.

Eradicating the invoice from the present six-bill funding package deal would create a domino impact of complications in Congress, as any adjustments to the package deal must undergo the Home of Representatives.

The Home of Representatives is away till February 2, which makes the prospect of a partial closure a lot larger.

Earlier than the capturing, a handful of Senate Democrats had already expressed their opposition to the laws, together with Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and Tim Kaine, D-Va.

Notably, Kaine crossed the aisle final yr to hitch a cohort of Democratic caucus members within the Senate to reopen the federal government after the longest shutdown in US historical past.

He wasn’t the one member of that group of eight to voice opposition; Senators Catherine Cortez Masto, D-N.V., and Jacky Rosen, D-N.M., each got here out Saturday towards the inclusion of the DHS invoice within the broader package deal.

“My private tenet has at all times been ‘agree the place you possibly can and battle the place you have to,’” Rosen mentioned in a press release. “And I imagine it is a time after we should battle again.”

In the meantime, Home lawmakers are in a weeklong recess after passing their newest spending package deal in two components — a standalone vote on DHS funding and one other that merges funding laws for the Departments of Struggle, Well being and Human Companies, Labor, Schooling, Transportation and Housing and City Growth — final Thursday.

SENATE PAUSES $174 Billion PACKAGE, MINNESOTA ICE SHOOTING FUELS DHS FUNDING BATTLE

Home Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., holds a press convention following a gathering of the Home Republican Convention on the U.S. Capitol on January 13, 2026 in Washington, DC. Republicans mentioned ICE operations in Minnesota, affordability and upcoming authorities funding laws. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Photographs)

A provision was added to the laws earlier than it handed the Home of Representatives that may have mixed the payments into one giant package deal that the Senate may contemplate directly. It was then anticipated to be accompanied by different payments that the Senate has not but thought-about however have been handed by the Home of Representatives this month.

Altering that earlier than the Jan. 30 shutdown deadline would require Home lawmakers to return to Washington early to navigate a number of procedural hurdles and vote on the laws once more — one thing Home Republican leaders are ruling out, at the very least for now.

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“Now we have handed all 12 payments to the Senate, they usually have six extra of their possession that they should move to the president,” a GOP management supply advised Fox Information Digital on Saturday night time, referring to the Home finishing its portion of Congress’ annual appropriations course of. “We do not plan on coming again subsequent week.”

Even when Home leaders change their plans, the looming snowstorm would imply lawmakers will not return till Tuesday on the earliest. That might lead to ultimate approval someday on Wednesday or Thursday, just about guaranteeing that Congress will not act on the payments till after Friday’s deadline.

Republican Social gathering leaders within the Home of Representatives would additionally seemingly face attendance points in the event that they ordered a return, with a number of lawmakers mentioned to be on deliberate journeys and greater than a dozen busy campaigning for increased workplace.

A partial authorities shutdown would imply that solely businesses that Congress has not but funded must scale back or remove their capabilities — by which case, funds to active-duty troops, air visitors controllers and Border Patrol brokers may all be affected.