The minority party’s blockade imperiled a push by Republicans for approval of larger package of legislation funding other departments, which needed to pass the Senate before the government’s spending authorization expired Friday. Democrats are demanding that the DHS funding bill be rewritten to include new restrictions on federal agents, following the killings of Good and Pretti, which came amid a surge of immigration agents Trump ordered into Minnesota’s largest city. Besides the homeland security department, Congress had not yet fully passed appropriations for the departments of defense, education, labor, health and human services, transportation, and housing and urban development. Trump has indicated that he would sign the spending package, blessed by his White House, when it reaches his desk. Republicans blocked the legislation when the vote took place, and the subsidies expired at the end of 2025.

Source: The Guardian January 31, 2026 08:12 UTC