Senate Democrats blocked a spending package to avoid a partial government shutdown to buy time to negotiate guardrails for immigration enforcement agencies after two killings in Minneapolis.
Democrats voted against the legislation on Thursday known as a minibus that includes funding the Departments of Homeland Security, Transportation, Defense, Health and Human Security, Labor and Education. Democrats want to see that legislation split and funding for the agencies to be voted on separately, as they look for ways to force change to how federal agencies enforce Trump’s deportation push.
