Barbara Sprint

NPR's Barbara Sprint with the latest.

Senate Republicans sent Democrats another potential deal yesterday.

But top Democrats said it didn't have the significant reforms that they want to see.

What's new is the potential to fund DHS minus ISIS detention and deportation operations.

And this would allow the rest of the department to get funded, including those TSA officers currently working without pay.

The network that's been built up, without funding, all of that would fall apart.

Democrats say they'll only vote to fund DHS if there are significant changes to the department, specifically Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, after two U.S.

citizens were fatally shot by officers in Minneapolis.

But this shutdown wouldn't mean a shutdown of ICE itself.

That agency received over $70 billion in separate funding from Congress last summer.

Lawmakers in both the Senate and House are expected to be out of town next week, but they'll be on notice to return to D.C.

if there's a deal.

Barbara Sprint, NPR News, Washington.

Leaders of both ICE and Customs and Border Protection said they couldn't comment on the details of the two fatal shootings in Minneapolis that sparked widespread public outrage.

But the officials committed to providing members of the committee with full reports from the investigations once they conclude.

In response to lawmakers' questions about their constituents' fears of being targeted by ICE, the agency's acting director said American citizens should not be arrested.

A Senate report from December from Democrats found instances of nearly two dozen American citizens detained by federal immigration agents between last June and November.

Barbara Sprint, NPR News, Washington.