Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Wednesday three demands he said would be essential to securing Democrats’ support for a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill that must pass before the end of Friday to avoid a partial government shutdown. Schumer outlined the three reforms he wanted made to the department, telling reporters that these demands were “common-sense and necessary policy goals” his caucus is “united” on. Democrats’ proposed changes would require stripping the DHS bill from its larger funding package and sending its newly amended language back to the House where some Republicans are already assembling their own amendments to the bill. The aftermath of Pretti’s death upended expectations that the largely bipartisan funding package would quickly pass ahead of the rapidly approaching government funding deadline at the end of the month. If the bill is not stripped from the package, a partial government shutdown would start on Jan. 31.