But following the weekend killing of US citizen Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis, Schumer called for the DHS bill to be rewritten and voted on separately. On Wednesday, he announced that Democrats had “united” on a “set of common sense and necessary policy goals that we need to rein in ICE and end the violence”. He noted that failure to pass the DHS bill wouldn’t stop ICE’s operations, since it received tens of billions of dollar from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act earlier this year. Schumer’s demands greatly increase the chances of at least a partial shutdown beginning later this week, because any changes to the DHS funding bill in the Senate require it to be passed again by the House. “I’ve … spent significant time hearing many different positions on the funding bills and maintain that I will never vote to shut our government down, especially our defense department,” he said in a statement on Monday.