Infuriated By Weekend Killing, Senate Dems Refuse to Fund ICE

The likelihood of an end-of-week government shutdown is on the rise as Senate Democrats vow not to vote for spending legislation that would pump even more money into ICE with few restraints.

The House had already passed the Homeland Security funding portion, with seven Democrats voting in support. But their Senate counterparts, some of whom were initially expected to vote for the package, reversed course this weekend after ICE agents killed Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse with the Minneapolis VA hospital, on the street.