Congressional progressives vow to block DHS funding without reforms

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Source: The Guardian

Tue 13 Jan 2026 19.32 EST
First published on Tue 13 Jan 2026 17.33 EST


Progressives in the US Congress on Tuesday vowed to oppose legislation funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) unless it included significant reforms to immigration enforcement, amid a widening roar among Democrats following the killing of a US citizen in Minnesota last week.

The declaration by the Democratic-aligned Congressional Progressive caucus comes as the Senate and House of Representatives race to meet an end-of-the-month deadline to approve a series of funding bills or risk a partial government shutdown.

The debate over DHS funding has been rocked by last week’s fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent after the Trump administration ordered a surge of federal officers into the city amid its push for mass deportations.

“Our caucus members will oppose all funding for immigration enforcement in any appropriation bills until meaningful reforms are enacted to end militarized policing practices,” the caucus’s deputy chair, Ilhan Omar, who represents most of Minneapolis, told a press conference at the US Capitol.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/13/dhs-funding-congress-progressives

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1. Every Democrat should join them in this. Those that don't should be primaried. ICE is shooting Democratic

citizens in the street. Time to use all that powder they've been keeping dry.

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2. KICK

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3. Perhaps they're not doing it publicly...

...but Schumer and Jefferies should be letting the Republicans and the White House they'll be fighting with hammer and tongs against DHS funding if ICE doesn't clean up it's act. Or they can be making sure language goes into those bills that says federal law enforcement can't wear masks and must have names and badges conspicuously displayed on their chests as their primary demands.