After second Minneapolis shooting, Congress hurtles toward a partial government shutdown over DHS funding

The U.S. government is nearing the brink of a partial shutdown by the extremity of the week aft national migration agents shot and killed a U.S. national successful Minnesota connected Saturday, the 2nd specified incidental this month.

The Senate is acceptable to ballot this week connected a monolithic House-passed $1.2 trillion bundle to money the Department of Homeland Security, on with a wide swath of government, earlier the Jan. 30 deadline. But the shooting of 37-year-old ICU caregiver Alex Pretti successful Minneapolis is present threatening to derail the backing bundle arsenic a increasing chorus of Democrats pass they volition reason it unless backing for the Department of Homeland Security is stripped out.

"Democrats sought communal consciousness reforms successful the Department of Homeland Security spending bill, but due to the fact that of Republicans' refusal to basal up to President Trump, the DHS measure is woefully inadequate to rein successful the abuses of ICE. I volition ballot no," said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., successful a connection connected Saturday night.

"Senate Democrats volition not supply the votes to proceed to the appropriations measure if the DHS backing measure is included," helium said.

The backing bundle needs 60 votes to flooded the filibuster and walk the Senate. Republicans clasp a 53-47 ballot bulk successful the Senate, meaning Democratic enactment volition beryllium needed to walk the measure. Of the 47, 2 are independents who caucus with Democrats.

Some Democrats were already opposed to the backing measure, which, successful summation to DHS, includes the departments of Defense; Health and Human Services; Labor; Housing and Urban Development; Transportation; Education; State and Treasury.

But Pretti's decease is rapidly galvanizing Democratic absorption to the measure.

"Federal agents cannot execution radical successful wide daylight and look zero consequences," said Senate Appropriations ranking subordinate Patty Murray, D-Wash., on X Saturday. "I volition NOT enactment the DHS measure arsenic it stands. The DHS measure needs to beryllium divided disconnected from the larger backing bundle earlier the Senate—Republicans indispensable enactment with america to bash that."

It's unclear if the Senate tin divided the DHS information disconnected from the remainder of the backing measure to minimize a partial shutdown. While the House passed the DHS measure separately from the remainder of the bills, they were each tied unneurotic into 1 measure to beryllium sent to the Senate, meaning the bulk Republicans would request to enactment splitting the measure up.

The House, which near Washington past week for a pre-scheduled recess, would apt request to instrumentality to o.k. immoderate changes the Senate makes.

Complicating matters further is simply a monolithic snowstorm implicit Washington, D.C., and wide stretches of the U.S. The Senate canceled votes connected Monday owed to the storm, shortening an already choky timeline to debar a shutdown.

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