Democrats will not provide votes to advance DHS funding bill in wake of Minneapolis shooting, Schumer says

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Source: CBS News

Here’s a link to a CBS News article that seems to NOT be behind a paywall.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/homeland-security-funding-bill-senate-democrats-schumer-minneapolis-shooting/

Here are excerpts from the article – basically, Chuck Schumer says enough Democrats will vote “NO” to kill funding for DHS and ICE while Republicans are looking for a way to salvage the funding.

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Saturday that Democrats will not put up the necessary votes to advance a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security in the wake of immigration agents shooting and killing a man in Minneapolis on Saturday.
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The House on Thursday passed a funding package, along with a separate measure to fund DHS, sending the bills to the Senate for approval, along with two other funding measures that passed the House last week.

In the Senate, the DHS funding measure was expected to be packaged with the other legislation that funds key federal departments in hopes the Senate passes the measures together before the Jan. 30 deadline to fund the government.

To advance the legislation, Republicans will likely need eight Democrats to vote for the legislation, since Sen. Rand Paul has generally voted against appropriations bills. If the funding package does not pass the Senate, there will be another partial government shutdown.
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Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/homeland-security-funding-bill-senate-democrats-schumer-minneapolis-shooting/

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This may be a good time for us to contact our Senators – regardless of whether they are Republican or Democrat – and urge them to vote against this funding. Sorry, but I have searched and searched but cannot find the Senate number for the bill.


The House passed the bill with seven Democrats voting FOR the appropriation - here's a link to the CBS article describing the House passage with Democratic assistance.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-vote-government-funding/