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Funding for the federal government runs out on Friday, and the killing in Minneapolis has shaken up what looked to be a glide path to likely avoiding a shutdown into what is now a wall that the Senate is going to crash into.

We can put up this first element from Chuck Schumer.

So Chuck Schumer has met with his Senate colleagues

And in the wake of the killing of Alex Pretty, rank and file Democrats have been livid and saying that they're drawing a red line here, that they have no intention of supporting government funding if it includes money for the DHS.

And so, Sagar, what's going on here?

So.

Last week, the House passed a bunch of different spending packages and then left.

So credit to Speaker Mike Johnson, we could say.

I think this is one of the first times that the House has actually passed

It's a normal appropriations bills where you're supposed to do it in like decades, practically like the Congress has been completely broken.