Senate Democrats are threatening to block legislation that would fund the Department of Homeland Security and several other agencies Thursday, potentially bringing the government a step closer to a partial shutdown if Republicans and the White House do not agree to new restrictions on President Donald Trump's surge of immigration enforcement.

Government shutdown all but guaranteed as House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., says earliest action on Senate-passed spending bill is Monday, with two-thirds majority potentially needed.

Senate Democrats released their list of demands to reform immigration enforcement and fund the government Wednesday, with little time to avert a partial government shutdown.

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Republican Sen. Ron Johnson (Wis.) said Tuesday that Democrats “got their martyrs” when immigration authorities shot and killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis last month. Alex Pretti and Renee Good were shot and killed by federal immigration authorities in separate incidents during operations in Minnesota last month.

The deal will fund most of the government through September and the Department of Homeland Security for two weeks

Federal funding is set to lapse at midnight Friday, and votes are still required in both chambers of Congress.

WASHINGTON — Americans are souring on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, complicating an already messy dynamic on Capitol Hill as emboldened Democrats draw a hard line against another s