Many Senate Democrats say they will vote against a funding bill expected on the floor this week to fund the Department of Homeland Security. The DHS bill is in question after the weekend’s ICE-connected killing in Minneapolis, as PBS and others reported.
“I will NOT support the DHS bill as it stands, top appropriator Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) said, after having previously supported it. “Federal agents cannot murder people in broad daylight and face zero consequences,” she wrote on X.
The House last week passed and sent to the Senate six appropriations bills to keep the government open when current funding runs out Friday night. The package included defense spending.
Murray proposed Monday that the Senate separate pass the defense spending bill and four others, leaving DHS funding for a separate vote to increase oversight of ICE.
The DHS spending bill also funds the Coast Guard.
DOD photo by Alexander Kubitza
