WASHINGTON—Senate Democrats are vowing to withhold their support for a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the wake of the Jan. 24 shooting of Alex Pretti by immigration officials, increasing the risk of a partial government shutdown as a Jan. 30 deadline looms.
The fatal shooting of Pretti in Minneapolis by Customs and Border Patrol agents, coming just weeks after the fatal shooting of Renée Nicole Good in Minneapolis, galvanized Senate Democrats—who had previously been signaling they'd back the compromise measure passed by the House—against backing the DHS funding bill.
