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Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., mentioned she is going to oppose funding forward of a Home vote to fund the federal government earlier than the Jan. 30 deadline, saying she won’t approve of giving more cash for the Division of Homeland Safety.
Omar voiced her opposition on X, saying she wouldn’t vote to financially assist federal immigration businesses amid the continued enforcement operations in her state.
CALIFORNIA DEMOCRAT APPEARS TO CALL TO DEFUND ICE, RESTART IT FROM SCRATCH
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., left, pictured alongside an ICE agent, proper. Omar mentioned she plans to vote towards a invoice to fund the Division of Homeland Safety over its immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu through Getty Photos; Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg through Getty Photos)
“I can’t vote to offer ICE a single cent,” she wrote. “No extra clean checks for a rogue company that operates above the regulation, escalates violence, and erodes our most elementary freedoms.”
Omar, in addition to many Democratic officers, has repeatedly voiced anger on the Trump administration and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) due to their crackdown on unlawful immigrant criminals and the taking pictures of Renee Good, who federal authorities mentioned was making an attempt to ram into an ICE officer along with her car.
ICE has focused unlawful immigrants with prison data however has been met with opposition from native officers and anti-ICE agitators who’ve confronted officers, generally violently.
MINNEAPOLIS MAYOR FREY REFUSES TO WALK BACK ‘GET THE F— OUT’ MESSAGE TO ICE
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., walks beside {a photograph} of Renee Good, the girl shot and killed in her automotive by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis, throughout a information convention with the Congressional Progressive Caucus as they announce an effort to restrict funding for the Division of Homeland Safety, on the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photograph)
Many Democrats have framed the operations as illegal assaults on immigrants. Nevertheless, the Trump administration has launched the names and prison offenses, together with violent and baby intercourse abuse convictions, of a few of these arrested.
On Tuesday, Congress unveiled a $1.2 trillion spending package deal that features funding for a number of facets of the federal authorities, however a partisan divide stays over funds for ICE.
However progressives have threatened a riot over funding for ICE, which is included within the DHS portion of the invoice.
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If handed by the Home and Senate, the laws — which mixes 4 separate spending payments right into a package deal referred to as a “minibus” — could be the ultimate means for Congress to avert one other authorities shutdown.
Fox Information Digital’s Alex Miller, Elizabeth Elkind and Leo Briceno contributed to this report.
