As shutdown looms, Democrats unveil demands to address Pretti killing

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: USA Today

Jan. 28, 2026, 5:10 p.m. ET


WASHINGTON – With an increasingly likely partial government shutdown only days away, Senate Democrats outlined three main demands for reforming the Department of Homeland Security, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in the wake of Alex Pretti's killing.

First, they want President Donald Trump to end sweeping immigration checks known as "roving patrols." They also demand more accountability for ICE and Border Patrol, including independent investigations and stricter use-of-force standards. Lastly, they want "masks off" officers – and "body cameras on."

If congressional Republicans and the White House don't earnestly negotiate over those requests, another funding crisis is imminent, warned Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York. "These are commonsense reforms, ones that Americans know and expect from law enforcement," he told reporters on Jan. 28. "The White House has had no specific, good, concrete ideas."

He stressed that Senate Democrats are united around those demands. Without a willingness from GOP lawmakers and the president to negotiate, his caucus is pledging to withhold their votes from a broader funding package that must pass by Friday, Jan. 30.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/01/28/government-shutdown-democrat-demands/88401107007/

[Roy Rolling]

1. Three demands?

What about a fourth? Release the Epstein files

Please don’t take your eyes off the ball during this ongoing reality-TV propaganda media production.

When distraction is the tactic the remedy is to remind.

[IronLionZion]

2. MAGA are doing all this to distract us from the Epstein files

we may be at war with Iran if you keep asking about the Epstein files. And then Greenland

[Scrivener7]

4. But once they are released, all of that goes away. It's like publishing the blackmail letter.

Once it's out, their threats lose all power.

[Miguelito Loveless]

5. Not really,

The Orange Rapist then has to explain being all over the files.

[Scrivener7]

3. Yes. Then 5 and 6: 5) Get rid of all ICE agents with a criminal background or who were once

part of a far-right militia or took part in January 6, and require that all of them can read at an 8th grade level (yes, that is necessary to stipulate, believe it or not.) Without these stipulations, all we are negotiating is for a fairer procedure after they murder us.

AND

6) ACA extensions

We have public opinion on our side right now. They need to use it and negotiate hard. I really hope they're not going to soft-pedal this.

[Talitha]

6. Never trust Lucy with the football.

Even if they agree to all the demands, will they keep their word? Oh, they might appear to make an effort by limiting the roving patrols, but I'm guessing the ICE goons won't unmask or turn on body cameras. They already learned their lesson during the attempted insurrection when they filmed their faces and recorded all of their crimes.