HUNT VALLEY, Md. (TNND) — Senate Democrats will block legislation that would fund much of the government if it contains dollars for ICE and other Homeland Security agencies, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Saturday.

He said in a social media post that a Homeland Security bill will need to be separated from a package of six following the killing of another Minneapolis resident by immigration agents.

“Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included," Schumer wrote on X.

The Homeland Security bill, which the House passed last week, would fund ICE, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Citizenship and Immigration Services, along with other bodies like the Coast Guard, Secret Service and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The Senate was going to consider it with five other bills that would fund several departments, including Defense, State, Treasury and others. Schumer said he would vote against the package since the Homeland Security bill is “woefully inadequate” to address issues with ICE.

“What’s happening in Minnesota is appalling—and unacceptable in any American city,” he wrote.

“Democrats sought common sense reforms in the Department of Homeland Security spending bill, but because of Republicans’ refusal to stand up to President Trump, the DHS bill is woefully inadequate to rein in the abuses of ICE. I will vote no.”

Border Patrol killed Alex Pretti, a Minneapolis nurse, during a protest on Saturday. He was resisting arrest before an agent shot him several times.

Greg Bovino, head of CBP’s Minneapolis team, said that Pretti was violently resisting agents’ attempts to disarm him of a gun he had. A Border Patrol officer then fired multiple shots out of fear for his life and the lives of other agents, Bovino noted. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has shared a similar account of the killing.

Pretti’s death has caused more Democrats to oppose Homeland Security funding and consider impeaching Noem, an effort that gained steam after ICE’s killing of Minneapolis resident Renee Good earlier this month. The exact details of her death are unclear, but she was driving away from a confrontation with agents when one shot and killed her.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Saturday that Homeland Security and President Donald Trump are “completely and totally out of control.”

“Taxpayer dollars are being misused by DHS to brutalize American citizens and law-abiding immigrants with impunity,” Jeffries said in a statement. “The American people reject this affront to our values.”

Trump has largely defended immigration agents' actions, although he reportedly said Sunday that his administration was reviewing Pretti’s killing.

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