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Democrats demanding change. Lisa Brady, Fox News. With the Senate facing a Friday night deadline to avoid a government shutdown, Senate Democrats want an ICE-related amendment to a DHS funding bill.
There needs to be a uniform code of conduct and accountability.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says federal agents should be held to the same use of force policies as state and local officers and be required to unmask and wear body cameras. Senate Majority Leader John Thune says the DHS budget also funds other agencies, including FEMA and the TSA.
What are the Democrats' demands regarding the DHS funding bill?
It also has important reforms that Democrats have requested, including body cameras, about $20 million in there for that, a couple million dollars in there for de-escalation training. things the Democrats have said that they wanted.
Republicans also noting that last year's Big Beautiful Bill included ICE funding into 2029 and that killing the current DHS bill won't change that. Again, Schumer wants an amendment to the DHS bill, but it's part of a package of six spending bills passed by the House already with bipartisan support. Multiple people now facing federal charges in Minnesota were anti-ICE protests. Continue.
Attorney General Pam Bondi on X saying she's on the ground in Minneapolis where federal agents have arrested 16 Minnesota rioters for allegedly assaulting, resisting, and impeding federal law enforcement agents. The arrests include a Twin Cities teaching assistant accused of ramming a federal vehicle two weeks ago in suburban Minneapolis.
Fox's Jeff Bonasso also in Minnesota. Two Border Patrol agents who fired their weapons during the confrontation that killed Alex Pretty last weekend are on administrative leave. Secretary of State Marco Rubio offering reassurance at a Senate hearing about Venezuela.
I can tell you right now with full certainty, we are not postured to, nor do we intend or expect to have to take any military action in Venezuela.
Though he adds the president could act to eliminate a threat if needed, also saying a month after the ouster of Nicolas Maduro, there's still no timetable for a democratic transition. America's listening to Fox News.
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During that foreign policy hearing, Secretary of State Rubio also telling senators the Iranian regime is probably weaker than it's ever been and that more protests will happen.
Because this regime, unless they are willing to change and or leave, have no way of addressing the legitimate and consistent complaints of the people of Iran who deserve better.
President Trump posting a warning about an armada heading to Iran, urging them to negotiate a fair deal, adding no nuclear weapons.
The rhetoric is getting increasingly heated from the leaders in Iran. We have a statement from one of those leaders in which he said that any U.S. strike would be met with an immediate response, unprecedented, he described. We also heard from Iran's foreign minister that the armed forces in Iran have their fingers on the trigger.
Fox's Jennifer Griffin, the Treasury Department holding a summit on the president's new Trump accounts for children.
For the first time ever, we're going to give every newborn American child a financial stake in the future, a head start to life, and a fair shot at the American dream.
A growing number of companies providing some of the seed money for the government-backed accounts, which would unlock when a child turns 18 for education, housing, or to start a business, and like retirement accounts, are tied to U.S. stock index funds. A fairly upbeat assessment of the U.S. economy from the Fed, calling the pace of growth solid with improvement in the labor market since the last meeting. The Fed leaving its benchmark interest rate unchanged today after three quarter point rate cuts last year.
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