The risk of another partial government shutdown escalated quickly Saturday after federal agents shot and killed a Minneapolis resident who was protesting a Trump administration immigration crackdown.
Within hours of the shooting, Senate Democrats pledged to oppose a roughly $1.33 trillion spending package needed by Friday to avert a shutdown if funding for the Homeland Security Department remains part of it.
“Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included,” Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a statement Saturday night, calling the federal tactics used in Minneapolis “appalling” and “unacceptable in any American city.”
