Megan Basham

So that's in Washington.

What about the political leaders in Minnesota?

No, actually, I would say just the opposite.

Daily Wire political reporter Cameron Arcand has been closely covering the situation for us over the weekend.

And he points out that Walls used extremely loaded terms in his response.

Walls called ICE deployment in the city a quote unquote occupation.

And to Cameron's point there, Walz also held a press conference shortly after news of the shooting broke and used that time to denigrate ICE and attack the Trump administration.

The police chief of Minneapolis, Brian O'Hara, seemed to follow his boss's lead there and said on CBS that even if an investigation determines that agents did lawfully shoot Alex Preddy, ICE should still stop its efforts to enforce immigration law in his city.

And then on the other side of the aisle, DHS is out urging Minnesota residents not to interfere with ICE operations.

And they're pointing out that these kinds of tragedies are not occurring in other cities where ICE has been deployed because in other cities, local law enforcement are working with ICE and are not encouraging organized protesters to obstruct their operations.

This was DHS Secretary Kristi Noem on Fox.

And that was something that was echoed by Deputy AG Todd Blanch.

Yeah, no, not right now there isn't.

The president's response so far is to point the finger ultimately at Minnesota officials.

He's asking where the local police have been, and he also continues to highlight what's driving this heightened federal presence in the state.

He said on Truth Social, quoting here, Minnesota is a criminal cover-up of the massive financial fraud that has gone on.

So it doesn't sound right now like the administration plans on backing down.

But we will have to see if the budget battle changes that calculation.

So it sounds like both sides are digging in at this point.

Megan, thanks for reporting.