Source: The Hill
“The risk of a partial government shutdown at the end of January is growing more likely, as protesters demonstrated with renewed furor overnight after a second person in the span of a month was [murdered] by federal immigration authorities in Minneapolis. Senate Democrats vowed to block a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding package on Saturday after Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse and Minneapolis resident, was [murdered] by U.S. Border Patrol agents. … President Trump and other administration officials defended the federal presence in Minnesota and tied the [murder] to an ongoing massive fraud investigation in the state.” (01/25/26)