Senate Democrats are ready to break a fragile truce that would avert a partial government shutdown after a Minneapolis man was fatally shot by a border patrol agent Saturday.

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats alike are vowing to tank a Homeland Security funding bill ahead of the Friday deadline — which would trigger a partial government shutdown after border patrol shot an armed ICU nurse in Minneapolis Saturday.

The $64.4 billion funding bill had only just squeaked by the House last week in a 220-207 vote, barely overcoming controversy over the immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, but now the Saturday shooting of Alex Pretti has seemingly emboldened Senate Democrats to kill it.

“The Trump Administration and Kristi Noem are putting undertrained, combative federal agents on the streets with no accountability,” Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) said in a statement Saturday. “They are oppressing Americans and are at odds with local law enforcement. This is clearly not about keeping Americans safe, it’s brutalizing U.S. citizens and law-abiding immigrants.”

“I will not support the current Homeland Security funding bill. We have bipartisan agreement on 96% of the budget,” she added.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    5 days ago

    Shut it down, they never should have opened it up last time. They only did it because it hit the airports, and their campaign donors couldn’t move their operatives around the country, so the disgusting, cowardly Dem leadership surrendered, and got nothing but deserved derision from both MAGA and their constituents.

    So this time, shut it down until after the election. Make the entire Congressional campaign a nationwide food and medical care drive. Red state citizens will see Blue State politicians helping their constituents, while Red state politicians will offer empty, self-serving nonsense.

    But the MAGA comedy act of Schmuck & Jeffries won’t do it.