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Senate Democrats say they will oppose a sweeping government funding package if it includes Homeland Security money, citing anger over immigration enforcement and a fatal Minneapolis shooting involving federal agents. The standoff comes as the government faces a late-January funding deadline and lawmakers debate whether to split DHS funding from the broader package.
↗The death of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, has intensified scrutiny of federal immigration enforcement in Minneapolis, as relatives contest claims that he threatened officers and point to bystander video showing him holding a phone.
↗President Trump hosted a private White House screening of an Amazon MGM documentary centered on First Lady Melania Trump, even as the administration faced fierce criticism over a fatal Minneapolis shooting by a federal agent. Democrats pointed to the event as evidence of skewed priorities and demanded accountability.
↗A White House film screening intended to promote a new documentary about First Lady Melania Trump collided with a rapidly intensifying political crisis after the fatal shooting of an ICU nurse by a Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis and the resulting threat by Democrats to block funding for the Department of Homeland Security.
↗President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump held a private White House screening of an Amazon MGM Studios documentary as political tensions rose after a fatal shooting involving federal agents in Minneapolis. The event sparked Democratic criticism about priorities and added fuel to an already volatile debate over federal enforcement and funding.
↗A second deadly shooting by federal agents in weeks has triggered protests and sharpened partisan conflict, with Democrats signaling they may block homeland security funding unless the administration changes course.
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