ZAPATA, TEXAS — Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar joined six other House Democrats who voted to fund the Department of Homeland Security in an appropriations bill he helped negotiate. You can quote me on that.”Cuellar said the killing of Alex Pretti in Minnesota caused Senate Democrats to abandon DHS reforms he helped get added to the bill and change their position. Cuellar, alongside six other centrist Democrats, voted to fund the DHS appropriations bill last week before the news that Pretti, a protester in Minneapolis, was shot and killed by CBP agents on Saturday. The incident resulted in fury from Senate Democrats over the weekend as they vowed they would block the DHS appropriations bill unless it included additional guardrails for enforcement operations. I disagree with defunding ICE,” Cuellar said.