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Democrats in the US Senate are threatening to trigger a partial government shutdown unless the Trump administration agrees on how to handle its controversial crackdown on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.
The controversy comes when he faces US President Donald Trump. Growing public pressure to regulate ICE Following the shooting death of two American citizens by federal officers performing immigration checks in Minneapolis.
Among the Senate Democrats’ demands: require ICE agents to remove their masks, wear IDs and body cameras, stop roaming and follow the same use-of-force guidelines as local police.
Without the amendments, Democrats said they would block the funding package that faces a Senate vote on Thursday.
Failure to pass the bill would shut off funding to many federal departments and programs starting Friday night, forcing what would be the second government shutdown in months.
On Wednesday night, talks between the White House and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Democrat Chuck Schumer, intensified to reach a deal to end the shutdown, according to reports. New York Times And CNN.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been hiring, but some of its tactics are raising questions about who it’s trying to recruit. CBC’s Jonathan Montpete breaks down the troubling parallels in the message, and goes beyond why Risk might be hired.
Although Republicans hold a small majority in the Senate, they need at least a handful of Democrats inside to get the 60 votes needed to move funding resolutions forward.
The package cuts the Department of Homeland Security for the rest of the fiscal year — including $770 million for ICE detention and enforcement programs — but includes budgets for the Departments of Defense, State, Transportation, and Health and Human Services.
During Trump’s second term in the White House, the amount of public funding allocated to the ICA has skyrocketed, making it the most heavily funded law enforcement agency in the US, with a larger budget than the FBI.
In the year A big Trump-sponsored bill passed by Congress in 2025 gives ICE $75-Billion American Supplement It is to spend $10 billion more than the current annual budget over four years.
The official, who Trump sent this week to lead Minnesota’s enforcement operation, border czar Tom Homan; They gave a press conference in Minneapolis on Thursday It would only reduce the number of police officers who cooperate with state and local authorities in extraditing illegal immigrants held in jails.