#continuing resolution

Democrats demanded a long list of changes to DHS after federal immigration agents killed Alex Pretti last month in Minneapolis, including tighter rules on warrants and a ban on agents wearing face masks. The White House is open to some of them, but the two sides have not reached an agreement days before the department is set to run out of money.

“With just two days until funding runs out for the Department of Homeland Security, there are no signs of a breakthrough between Republicans and Democrats,” Punchbowl News reports.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) says Senate Democrats will block another short-term funding resolution to keep the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) operating past Friday because Republicans haven’t done enough to meet their demands to overhaul Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The bill, H.R. 7147, was on the Senate floor yesterday

His position is a contrast from that of Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), who indicated that he plans to move forward on a second CR this week to fund DHS as Democrats and the White House remain at an impasse over proposed reforms to immigration enforcement. 

Roll call vote on the passage of H.R. 7148, the Consolidated Appropriations Act. Because the bill was amended, it must go back to the House before it can be signed. The House of Representatives won’t be back in session until Monday.

The 71-29 vote caps a week of Senate drama after a Border Patrol agent shot and killed 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday, sparking a public backlash against the tactics of federal immigration enforcement officers and pushing Democrats to oppose the DHS funding bill that was part of a six-bill funding package.

Senators say that negotiations over a stalled government funding package are hung up over the question of how long to temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) at current levels to give the White House and Senate Democrats more time to negotiate immigration enforcement reforms.