Posted on 01/25/2026 1:05:25 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
A second high-profile killing by a federal agent in Minneapolis has jeopardized the chances of Congress averting a partial government shutdown as Democrats come out en masse against the funding measure for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Lawmakers had been on the verge of completing their funding work for fiscal 2026 this week after the House last week passed its final four appropriations bills. However, the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, 37, a nurse at the city’s Veterans Affairs hospital, by a Border Patrol agent has seemingly torpedoed the chances of those bills passing the Senate, with one key Democrat after another saying they will not vote to fund DHS.
The DHS bill is tied in with five others that fund the departments of Defense, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, Labor and Education — all of which have broad support.
Democrats are now saying they will not support the so-called minibus as long as the DHS portion is included. Senate Democrats are expected to have an all-members call on Sunday evening to figure out the plan forward, one aide told The Hill.
“I hate shutdowns. … But I can’t vote for a bill that includes ICE funding under these circumstances,” Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) told “Face The Nation” on Sunday. “Take up DHS by itself. Let’s have an honest negotiation. Put some guardrails on what’s going on, some accountability, and that would solve this problem. We don’t have to have a shutdown.”
The Maine independent’s comments came a day after multiple key Democrats indicated they will vote against any funding package that includes the DHS segment.
Among them were Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.), who said that...
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Go ahead and shut it down. I never noticed any difference last time.
This time, no paid vacations - please...
At some point, I think it would be best just to declare the federal government PERMANENTLY shut down. Let the states find suitable partners to re-form themselves into confederacies based on common values. Two to four new groupings could be formed, and walls could be erected to keep leftists and other crazy people out of the saner ones.
It was part of the plan…
At least it will only be 1,000 pages of bs waste instead of 2,000 with the rinos in charge.
Great news! Shut it down and stay away until next year.
BREAK THE FILABUSTER!
Smiles 😊
There is very clear video from across the road- showing the DSI agent (in gray coat) with the SIG firearm in his right hand pointing down. His fingers hand are not on the trigger, and as he moves the gun away from the group of officers securing the individual, the SIG pistol fires- toward the pavement (it is audible on the sound of the video, at 1.5 seconds from the removal of the weapon from the individual— and, it is the first shot.
It is likely one of the officers (which is training) said “gun” when the weapon was removed from the individual. The SIG 320 is notorious for unintended firing from movement of a chambered weapon (people have shot themselves in the foot or other places, and when dropped with a chambered round).
The investigation will need to be fully completed, with complete timelines of forensics before making a statement that a “Border Patrol agent” shot a non-defensive shot at the individual. That is per Supreme Court landmark decision decades ago. There is a process, and supposition by media does not help it— actually designed to serve political agendas, like Walz and Frey.
The Somali invasion was decades in planning it is the skim coat to Obama’s agenda they will go to their death over Minneapolis. It is their Ride or Die.
Oh, please. The demonicRATS and their Republican aiders and abetters were going to shut the government down regardless.
Do it RATS!!
Minnesota is the Motherload of Democrat corruption seeded nationwide. The Democrats aren’t going to risk opening that Pandora’s Box any wider. This is their Ride or Die Moment.
Ortho spray is good for roaches too.
You have hit the nail on the head. Circles within Circles’
This is all part of the cabal’s plan to ignite a civil war
Funny. Haven’t conservatives been trying for years to get rid of DHS?
Vote to disarm the US and let the Scamalis and let the rest of crooks and thieves run wild
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