Posted on 01/25/2026 7:09:22 AM PST by Mariner
WASHINGTON — A sweeping government funding package is facing new hurdles in the Senate after another person was shot and killed by a federal officer on Saturday in Minnesota, raising the specter of a potential shutdown next Friday at midnight.
The legislation needs 60 votes to secure passage in the chamber, where Republicans control 53 seats. And a number of key Democrats who have voted for recent appropriations measures said they’ll vote against funding the Department of Homeland Security unless restrictions are put on how immigration officers carry out enforcement operations.
The package, which has passed the House, is slated to come up for a Senate vote next week.
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Unfortunately, congressional Republicans are not up for it. So WE have to pressure them...along with POTUS.
The GOP should threaten to block funding from something the democrats love
If we can hurry up and kill another antifa somali rioter, maybe the RATS would shut down the government again. All I can say is every GD skank Dipstick “judgette” better rule that the RATs can’t deny money to the Department of Homeland Security. If they rule with their toilets scrubbing RATS, they would be the Mothers of All Hypocrites and the Mothers of Invasion.
Democrats incited the arsehole with the gun to draw down on the coppers. This violence is deliberately caused by Demos, only Demos. Like 99% of all other violence in the US.
The proper reaction is to make this point and start arresting every politico who incites publicly or privately. Do not back down in Mn. If you do that, the enemies of civilization win.
And, yes, this is a fight for civilization. Nothing less.
if this will block FEMA funding in the midst of this ice storm and IRS refunds for taxpayers who are already strapped, this would be fodder for mid-term ads.
and then something happens leaving the US in deep doo doo thanks to the democrats again
The President should say two things…
“I am immediately suspending all immigration into this country indefinitely”
“I am immediately closing the Mexican border to everything except some trade”
This suggestion isn’t worth the tome of day, unless we slso close the northern border as well.
Why don’t they just defund civilization?
That’s what they’ve been doing.
But I thought you could not put any strings attached to any govt spending.
Demos are insane if they expect lawful federal agents to permit some anarchist to shoot them. The dirtbag had a gun and the agent defended himself.
Senate Republicans WANT a massive failure of the Trump presidency so the D.C. corruption can return to “normal.”
They are IN ON IT !
These actions by the “peaceful protestors” is sounding like the Palestinians’ actions against Israel, with hordes of troublemakers coming out after one kamikaze protestor dies in a demonstration, then hordes of screaming women come out for the cameras and screaming lies.
They’re killing too few...
Trump is going to rip the dems to shreds in the SOTU speech next month.
It’s going to be a barn burner.
A shutdown over DHS funding is unbelievably stupid.
Nobody in politics is better at “branding” than Trump, and the dems are siding with murderers and rapists, who are in the country illegally, by the way.
Good luck with all that, Schumer…you got your martyrs, now go ahead and run with that.
Trump will find the money from somewhere else anyway.
Stupid, stupid, stupid…..
This is the hill that the Democrats are willing to die on. To the Democrats, we are not deporting illegals, we are removing Democrat voters…who are illegally here.
If the RATs run another Schumer Shutdown the first place to have their Federal money cut off needs to be Minneapolis.
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