Tamara Keith

Clay, I do want you to talk about one other thing that happened today, which I found pretty surprising, which is a Republican candidate for governor dropped out of the race, citing the federal action in his state.

Can you tell me more about that?

All right.

Well, we are going to take a quick break and we will have more in a moment.

And we're back.

And we've been discussing the aftermath of what happened this weekend in Minneapolis when federal immigration agents shot and killed Alex Preddy.

Clay, we have seen the Trump administration use similar tactics for immigration enforcement operations in other places.

sending in large numbers of ICE and Border Patrol, making a big show of doing immigration enforcement.

We've seen Portland, Oregon, Chicago, for example.

What do you think makes Minneapolis different?

This has been going on now for a long time in a very visible way.

Yeah.

And I will say that last week, the White House sent out a memo to federal agencies telling them that they needed to identify all federal spending in so-called sanctuary cities and sanctuary states with the idea President Trump has pledged that he's going to withdraw all federal funding from states that don't cooperate, as he has seen it.

Is there a blurring of lines between immigration enforcement and other political goals in this state?

Domenico, obviously, this has been a very messy situation recently.

But do you have any sense of whether the administration's response is going to be persuasive to voters?

And I promise we will talk about this more in a future podcast.

But Clay and Domenico, we have a government funding deadline in just a few days here at the federal level.

And all of a sudden, what's happening in Minnesota is getting wrapped up in that funding legislation that in theory could have avoided a government shutdown.

But now you have Democrats saying they don't think that they can support funding for these kinds of actions.