00:00The shooting in Minneapolis is detonating a political
00:05fight in Washington, one that could shut down part of the federal government by the end of the week.
00:10Senate Democrats are drawing a hard line. They say they will not vote to fund the Department of
00:15Homeland Security after the ICE killing and they're daring Republicans to strip DHS out.
00:20of the broader spending deal. Minority leader Chuck Schumer put it bluntly over the weekend.
00:25saying what's happening in Minnesota is appalling and Democrats won't move forward if DHS
00:30stays in the package. Patty Murray, the top Democrat on the appropriations.
00:35Committee flipped her position over the weekend. She had been trying to hold the deal together.
00:40Now she said in a post she won't support the DHS bill as written, adding federal
00:45agents cannot murder people in broad daylight and face zero consequences.
00:50That puts a partial government shutdown back on the table, possibly as soon as Friday.
00:55Because Republicans need Democratic votes to pass the remaining spending bills.
01:00Some Republicans are breaking from the White House's tone.
01:03Senator Bill Cassidy says on.
01:05The credibility of ICE and DHS is at stake and is calling for a full joint.
01:10federal and state investigation. But Senator Lindsey Graham is pushing the opposite.
01:15direction. Telling Democrats now is not the time to defund one of our major national
01:20national security priorities. And on CNN Sunday, Chris Murphy, the top Democrat.
01:25on the subcommittee that oversees DHS funding went even further.
01:29We cannot.
01:30fund a department of Homeland Security that is murdering American citizens that.
01:35is traumatizing little boys and girls all across the country in violation of the law.
01:40According to the AP, Democrats are now demanding changes to the DHS bill itself.
01:45including warrant requirements for ICE arrests, stronger training standards and limits on.
01:50on ICE operating inside U.S.
01:51cities.
01:52The problem, the House already passed.
01:55all six remaining funding bills as one package, pulling DHS out now.
02:00is procedurally messy and time is short.
02:03Add to that, the Senate is even.
02:05even back until tomorrow because of the snowstorm and the House is out all week.
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