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The far-left network that helped put Alex Pretti in harm’s way, then made him a martyr
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The skirmish that led to Saturday’s fatal shooting of an agitator by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis and the response that followed were driven by a complex network of far-left organizations with a wide range of causes, a Fox News Digital investigation found.
A coordinated web of encrypted chats, street alerts and tracking of ICE «Abductors» in a sophisticated database reviewed by Fox News Digital shows that agitators were already mobilized at the scene where 37-year-old Alex Pretti was killed minutes before any shots were fired. ICE and Border Patrol agents were there to arrest an illegal immigrant criminal, and Pretti and others were there, outside a donut shop, to meet them as part of a strategic pattern of organized interference with law enforcement operations.
Over the following hours, a national network of socialist, communist and Marxist-Leninist cells in the United States leveraged the tragic fatality into a nationwide protest operation. While grief and outrage over Pretti’s death is genuine, the network’s real-time rapid response, using short sensational video clips and emojis as weapons of propaganda, offers a window into the disciplined logistics, messaging and coordination of far-left warriors fomenting insurgency-like confrontation with authorities.
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«Rapid Responders» swarmed to the site of Glam Doll Donuts before the shooting occurred and afterward, documenting alleged ICE vehicles in the area in a sophisticated tracking database. The times in this database are Central Time, one hour behind Eastern Time.
«This level of engineered chaos is unique to Minneapolis. It is the direct consequence of far left agitators, working with local authorities,» Vice President JD Vance observed in a Sunday post on X.
The encrypted Signal messages obtained by Fox News Digital in real time show that anti-ICE «rapid responders» were actively tracking, broadcasting and summoning «backup» around federal agents outside Glam Doll Donuts on Nicollet Avenue, where the shooting occurred. Local «rapid responders» made at least 26 entries into a database called «MN ICE Plates» in the critical hours before and after the killing, documenting the license plate numbers and details of alleged ICE vehicles they claimed to see around Nicollet Avenue.
The entry at row 344 read, «At the nicollet [sic] murder,» chronicling a black Jeep Wagoneer at the location with agents allegedly «involved in shooting.» Row 338 had a «Glam Doll Donuts» entry, tracking a black Ford Taurus.
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Members of an ICE Watch «Rapid Response» team tracked federal agents to the street, calling on more protesters to come to the street, where an anti-ICE demonstrator was killed minutes later.
At 9:50 a.m. ET, just before the killing, a user identified as «Willow» shared a 22-second video on an encrypted Signal chat for anti-ICE «rapid responders.»
«26and 3rd,» wrote «Willow,» quickly following up with, «Outside Glam Doll.»
The video showed two agents, one wearing a vest marked «POLICE,» studying the front door of Glam Doll before walking away, past a sign in the window that read, «ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA.»
As the camera rolled, the person filming yelled, «No!»
The camera followed the agents as they returned to a maroon Dodge Durango, passing another sign in the window that read, «ALL WELCOME HERE.»
In the video, someone shouted, «Get out of here!»
Just three minutes later, at 9:53 a.m. ET, a second Signal user, «Salacious B. Crumb,» escalated the alert, summoning additional responders and citing the same vehicle and agents.
«Backup needed at the Black Forest Inn parking lot on Nicollet Ave just south of 26th Street,» the message read.
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«Multiple vehicles with many agents appear to be staging there,» the alert continued. «One confirmed ICE vehicle seen was a maroon Dodge Durango [plate number], but it has driven away northbound on Nicollet.» Fox News Digital has redacted the Florida license plate number included in the original message.
ICE Assistant Director Marcos Charles said Sunday that the violence on the streets was «not a coincidence,» considering the «chaos and mayhem» that agitators are fomenting in Minneapolis. At the same press conference, Customs and Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Greg Bovino confirmed that Pretti was «on the scene several minutes» before the fatal shooting.
Video of the scene shows that as Pretti stepped into the middle of Nicolle Street to direct traffic, fellow agitators could be heard blowing whistles to alert locals that ICE officers were around. Soon after, Pretti ended up in a street confrontation with Customs and Border Patrol agents, across the street from Glam Doll Donuts outside a worn storefront marked «NEW AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER,» a nonprofit focused on immigration entry programs for Somalis.
Within minutes, at about 10:05 a.m. ET, at least one Customs and Border Patrol agent shot Pretti, killing him.
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At 10:18 a.m. ET, the Signal network erupted.
Using a red phone emoji to signal an all-points alert, a message blasted out: «☎️ easy. URGENT: observers urgently requested at glam doll donuts @ 26th & nicollet [sic],» the alert continued. «an observer has been shot by ice, unknown condition, emts [emergency medical technicians] present, please be safe. EDIT: medics requested to join perimeter in case agents start gassing. be aware there are many agents and mpd [Minneapolis Police Department] officers present.»
Within minutes, far-left activists descended on Nicollet Avenue. Soon after, a video showed corrugated boxes of supplies apparently lined up on a Minneapolis sidewalk for protesters, including boxes marked «DESINER MASKS» [sic] and «FREE WINTER HATS,» next to piles of bottled water.
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Within hours, socialist leaders turbocharged their «rapid responders» in Minneapolis and mobilized street protesters from New York City to Los Angeles.
Media outlets, including CNN and MSNOW, described «angry protesters» but failed to identify the ideological networks behind the mobilization, even as protesters flashed their signs with their logos and names, touting socialism, communism and Marxism, on camera.
The Minneapolis activation marked the beginning of an almost instantaneous weekend surge by far-left organizations, including hardened socialist and communist groups operating in an ecosystem that national security experts describe as an insurgent-style operation designed to exploit tragedy to wage a domestic political war.
The strategy mirrors past mobilizations, including the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing in May 2020, and exploits well-intentioned public sympathy by rapidly framing Pretti — an intensive care unit nurse at a Veterans Administration hospital — as a symbol of resistance, much like Renee Good, the first victim of an ICE shooting in Minneapolis.
Just as they responded in real-time to mobilize «comrades» to march on the streets within 12 hours of the U.S. arrest of Venezuelan strongman Nicholas Maduro in early January, socialist, communist and Marxist-Leninist groups now frame their activation as an action within the «belly of the beast» against the «hyperimperialism» of the United States.
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Propagandists for socialist groups, including BreakThrough News, the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, sprang to action to demonize federal officials after a killing in Minneapolis. (BreakThrough News/X, Party for Socialism and Liberation/X, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, X)
Based on a digital analysis of scores of rapid-response messages following the killing on Saturday, a hub of communist and socialist nonprofit organizations emerged as key organizers of the protests, many of them funded by an American-born billionaire Neville Roy Singham, a self-declared Marxist-Leninist living in Shanghai, and offshoots of the People’s Forum Inc., a nonprofit hub Singham has funded in New York City since 2017 as an «incubator» for socialist and communist groups. The People’s Forum has declined requests for comment.
At 10:48 a.m. ET, BreakThrough News, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and propaganda arm of the People’s Forum, broke the news widely of the killing, sharing a video recorded from inside the Glam Doll Donut shot of the tussle outside, punctuated by gun shots and frantic narration, «Holy s**t. What the f***!…Did they f***ing kill that guy? F***ing kidding me, dude.»
BreakThrough News put a dramatic black-and-white caption over the video: «BREAKING: Another CPB Shooting in Minneapolis.» By Sunday afternoon, the video had 4.1 million views, alongside the outlet’s calls to support the People’s Republic of China, Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro and the communist revolution in Cuba.
Before the video cuts off, someone can be heard saying, «Yo, we need people on site!»
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The Party for Socialism and Liberation turned Alex Pretti into a poster boy for its protests.in quick graphics for its anti-ICE efforts. (Party for Socialism and Liberation/X)
At 11:40 a.m., BreakThrough News broadcast a 39-second video showing Minnesota National Guard soldiers charging across a street with batons, some falling as clouds of breath rose in the cold air.
Soon after, at 12:24 p.m., the Party for Socialism and Liberation – a political wing of the movement, working with shared leadership at the People’s Forum – published a quickly-made graphic, «CPB MURDERS ANOTHER IN MINNEAPOLIS,» and the message, «EXPAND THE GENERAL STRIKE!»
The call for a «general strike,» a classic communist tactic, refers to coordinated mass work stoppages aimed at paralyzing civil society to force political – and economic – outcomes.
At 12:33 p.m., the People’s Forum blasted out a bold red-and-white poster to followers, calling for an «EMERGENCY PROTEST» at 4 p.m. ET at Union Square in midtown Manhattan, with the message, «STOP ICE TERROR.»
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Democratic Socialists of America, People’s Forum and other groups that identify as Marxist-Leninist activated foot soldiers to protest the U.S. Political operative Linda Sarsour yelled at a protest, «We will bring this country to a halt!» (Democratic Socialists of America/X, People’s Forum/X, Defend 512/Instagram)
In lockstep, at 12:57 p.m., Democratic Socialists of America, the 501(c)(3) nonprofit that elected Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City, posted a stark black-and-white graphic on X, calling the killing an «execution» and demanding, «ABOLISH ICE NOW.»
At the protest, Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian political operative who has led virulently anti-Israel protests with socialist organizations after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack against Israel by Hamas terrorists, rallied the crowd at the 4 p.m. protest, yelling, «We will bring this country to a halt!» The People’s Forum shared the 22-second video clip with the caption: «🚨HAPPENING NOW IN NYC.»
Other groups mobilized simultaneously, including Freedom Road Socialist Organization, a self-described Marxist-Leninist group that has waved its red flag with its acronym, «FRSO,» in the middle of the protests since Good’s killing.
Also active: the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee, which has led many of the rapid-response efforts and Black Lives Matter chapters, which led the recent stampede through a local Christian church.
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By early evening, the narrative had coalesced into a chorus of voices within the far-left propaganda apparatus, adopting charged historical language to brand federal officials as Nazi-like figures. At 4:12 p.m. ET, Calla Walsh, a controversial communist activist filmed this past summer in Iran shouting, «Death to America! Death to Israel!» shared a 32-second video showing barricades built with Republic Services dumpsters.
She wrote, «People of Minneapolis build barricades, trapping ICE Gestapo at the scene of their latest murder in broad daylight. Not far from where they killed Renee Good a couple weeks ago, not far from where George Floyd was killed in 2020.»
By evening, CNN was reporting from the 4 p.m. protest in New York City but did not identify the ideological affiliations of the organizers, even as activists openly carried signs from the Party for Socialism and Liberation, with the group’s full name printed across the bottom.
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Another CNN segment from Minneapolis interviewed Chris Gray, describing him only as Pretti’s «next-door neighbor.» Gray spoke about Pretti while delivering a well-scripted appeal for a general strike to dismantle the «Trump regime» and promote «non-violent resistance.» The segment did not disclose that Gray is a member of Socialist Alternative, the U.S. affiliate of the International Socialist Alternative, a «global fighting organization of workers, young people, and all those oppressed by capitalism and imperialism,» seeking to create a «socialist world.»
Soon after, however, Socialist Alternative shared the interview proudly on Instagram, noting, «Chris Gray, Socialist Alternative member and next-door neighbor of Alex Pretti, speaks out.»
By evening’s end, at 9:44 p.m. ET, Gloria La Riva, a co-founder of the Party for Socialism and Liberation who has described herself as «a communist,» posted a message on X, using the inflammatory language now normalized: «Alex Pretti was murdered in cold blood, everyone knows that. 10 shots in his back. All of Trump’s, Noem’s, Bovino’s lies cannot cover it up. The people’s struggle will only grow!»
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«Rapid Responders» in Minneapolis track the vehicles they suspect belong to federal officials, including ICE agents, and upload details about their alleged vehicles in a database, «MN ICE PLATES AIRTABLE DATABASE,» labeling alleged ICE agents as «Abductors.» («MN ICE PLATES AIRTABLE DATABASE»)
The maroon Dodge Durango in the early Signal alerts from Saturday morning is Entry No. 2069 in the publicly shared database, «MN ICE PLATES,» publicly shared for any user with the link. It included a gallery of photos of alleged ICE vehicles.
At last count on Sunday, the database has 4,626 records of license plate numbers organized as «Highly Suspected ICE,» «Confirmed ICE,» «Suspected ICE,» «Cleared – Not ICE» and «Unknown.»
The total number of «Confirmed ICE» entries is 2,933 records. The total number of records labeled «Abductors» is 455.
A fine-print disclaimer states that the data is «for informational purposes only» and that its organizers «do not condone its use to forcibly assault, resist, oppose, impede or interfere with the official duties of any officer or employee of the United States, or of any agency in any branch of the United States Government, while engaged in or on account of the performance of official duties.»
Alleged ICE vehicles outside the shooting were included in a database compiled by Minneapolis citizens who have joined a «Rapid Response» team to track the movements of federal officials. They had swarmed the street minutes before the shooting occurred Saturday morning.
One guide, «Best Practices Guide for Neighborhood or Area Patrol / Monitors: 612,» includes a key to emojis and the jobs they represent for rapid responders:
«🚗💨= Mobile Patrol / Commuter – In a vehicle driving around, looking for agents»
«🚗📍= Stationary Patrol/Monitor – In a vehicle positioned at key places in the area, looking for agents»
«🏃🏻♀️= Foot Patrol – On foot, looking for agents»
«☎️ = Dispatch – Live on the Monitor / Patrol group call»
«📟 = Hyper-local group messenger – Ready to pass on word to individual neighborhoods and blocks»
‘🦺 = School / event safety spotters – Assigned and connected to a specific school or event»
«🍽️ = License plate checker – Ready to check a plate against the list of known license plates’;
«⛑️ = Medic – Ready to offer medical care»
«❤️🩹 = Aftercare provider – Available to connect with responders after an event»
The maroon Dodge Durango that was allegedly outside Glam Doll Donuts on Nicollet Avenue is listed with three prior sightings: Jan. 11 at 3 p.m. at the Whipple federal detention facility, Jan. 13 at 1:15 p.m. and a final sighting at Powderhorn Park parking lot on 35th Street and 14th Avenue.
It’s listed with the tags, «Seen in a convoy, Tinted/blacked-out windows, ICE agent(s) seen in vehicle,» and a final verdict: «Confirmed ICE.»
As socialist organizations continued to dispatch their foot soldiers to Nicollet Avenue on Sunday evening, the Signal groups were as active as ever on Sunday, an alert going out at 4:37 p.m. ET, with rapid responders now chasing a black Dodge Durango around town.
«2 confirmed ICE vehicles,» the alert read, «…at least 2 agents in each vehicle.»
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Hombres armados abrieron fuego el domingo en un campo de fútbol abarrotado de gente en México, y mataron a 11 personas e hirieron a otras 12, en un ataque que pareció poner de relieve la persistente violencia de los cárteles en el país, a pesar de los esfuerzos del gobierno.
Según las autoridades locales, los disparos alcanzaron a quienes estaban socializando después de un partido de fútbol, culminando un periodo especialmente violento en Salamanca, ciudad de 275.000 habitantes situada en el estado de Guanajuato, al centro del país.
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Otro episodio dejó cinco muertos en Salamanca el sábado, y una semana antes las autoridades desactivaron un artefacto explosivo en las inmediaciones de una refinería de la empresa gubernamental Petróleos Mexicanos en la ciudad.
“Estamos pasando por un momento grave, una grave descomposición social”, dijo César Prieto, alcalde de Salamanca, en un discurso grabado en video el domingo por la noche. “Lamentablemente, hay grupos criminales tratando de someter a la autoridad, cosa que no van a lograr”.
Mientras defiende los resultados de su estrategia de seguridad, la presidenta de México, Claudia Sheinbaum, dijo este lunes que su gobierno estaba en contacto cercano con las autoridades de Guanajuato “para poder dar con los responsables”. (AP Foto/Marco Ugarte, Archivo)
Guanajuato registró el mayor número de asesinatos de México el año pasado, con 2035 homicidios dolosos. Esa violencia ha sido impulsada en gran medida por una guerra territorial entre un cártel local y el Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación, el grupo criminal más poderoso de México.
Salamanca, en concreto, se encuentra cerca de una frontera que separa los territorios controlados por cada grupo, y también alberga una importante refinería de petróleo. Ambos cárteles quieren controlar Salamanca para impulsar sus negocios de narcotráfico y robo de combustible. Las autoridades locales dijeron que estaban investigando el tiroteo del domingo, y también si alguno de los dos cárteles estaba implicado.
La presidenta de México, Claudia Sheinbaum, que ha defendido los resultados de su estrategia de seguridad, dijo a los periodistas el lunes que su gobierno estaba en contacto cercano con las autoridades de Guanajuato “para poder dar con los responsables”.
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En un comunicado, la gobernadora de Guanajuato, Libia Dennise García, calificó el ataque de “hecho inaceptable” y dijo que las fuerzas estatales y federales estaban reforzando la seguridad.
El tiroteo masivo es un acontecimiento especialmente inoportuno para el gobierno mexicano, que ha estado llevando a cabo una agresiva campaña contra los cárteles de la droga en un esfuerzo por demostrar a la Casa Blanca que se toma en serio la erradicación del flujo de drogas hacia Estados Unidos.
El presidente Donald Trump lleva meses amenazando con emprender ataques terrestres contra los cárteles en México, afirmando que estos grupos dirigen el país. Sheinbaum ha dicho en repetidas ocasiones que un ataque unilateral sería una violación de la soberanía mexicana.
Recientemente, las amenazas más específicas de Trump, así como la captura del presidente Nicolás Maduro de Venezuela a manos de Estados Unidos, han aumentado los temores entre los funcionarios mexicanos de que México podría estar en el punto de mira a continuación. El gobierno de Trump también ha estado presionando a las autoridades mexicanas para que permitan la presencia de fuerzas estadounidenses en México.
En respuesta, México se ha mostrado dispuesto a golpear con más dureza a los cárteles, con la esperanza de evitar cualquier acción estadounidense. En los últimos días, México anunció la captura de varios delincuentes muy buscados, entre ellos un exatleta olímpico canadiense que se había convertido en un prolífico traficante de cocaína. México también trasladó la semana pasada a 37 delincuentes acusados a Estados Unidos. César Prieto, alcalde de Salamanca, advirtió: “Lamentablemente, hay grupos criminales tratando de someter a la autoridad, cosa que no van a lograr”. (Foto: EFE)
Los esfuerzos del gobierno han contribuido a reducir el número de homicidios en más de un 20 por ciento en México en comparación con el año anterior, según el gobierno de Sheinbaum. Las autoridades han centrado gran parte de su potencia de fuego en el Cártel de Sinaloa, una conocida organización delictiva asentada en el oeste del país, y han conseguido debilitar significativamente al grupo. Pero los expertos en seguridad han dicho que, al mismo tiempo, el cártel de Jalisco ha reforzado su control sobre otras partes del país.
Eso incluye Guanajuato. Los homicidios en el estado descendieron durante la segunda mitad del año pasado, pero la lucha entre el cártel de Jalisco y el cártel de Santa Rosa de Lima, un grupo local, ha hecho que continúen las matanzas.
Integrantes de la Guardia Nacional de México custodian la zona donde se cometió un ataque armado este domingo, en la ciudad de Salamanca (México). Al menos 11 personas murieron y 12 más resultaron lesionadas tras un ataque armado durante un partido de fútbol en la comunidad Loma de Flores, en el municipio mexicano de Salamanca, estado de Guanajuato, oeste de México. (Foto: EFE)
El campo de fútbol donde se produjo el tiroteo el domingo es un punto de reunión popular en la comunidad, y los partidos atraen a grandes multitudes cada fin de semana, dijo Orlando Arredondo Gallardo, portavoz del gobierno de Salamanca. “Van niños, hay puestos de comida”, dijo. “Toda la gente asiste y más los días domingos, que es cuando es más familiar”.
Entre las 12 personas heridas en el tiroteo había una mujer y un niño.
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Senate Democrats threaten shutdown by blocking DHS funding after Minnesota ICE shooting
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Anger over a deadly Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)-related shooting in Minnesota has pushed Senate Democrats to threaten a cutoff of Homeland Security funding and a possible shutdown.
In just a few short days, Democrats have rapidly coalesced behind their strategy to block funding for the agency as the deadline to fund the government hurtles closer.
Democrats in the upper chamber were already leery of supporting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spending bill, which funds ICE, but had come to a fragile truce with Senate Republicans in concocting several built-in restrictions on the agency and usage of ICE over months of negotiations.
SENATE DEMS REVOLT AGAINST DHS FUNDING BILL AMID MINNEAPOLIS CHAOS, HIKING GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN RISK
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has coalesced with Democrats behind a plan to strip the DHS funding bill from a broader spending package, but Republicans aren’t biting. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
But the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti during an immigration enforcement operation over the weekend in Minneapolis destroyed that tepid support. That incident rapidly mobilized Senate Democrats to decry and reject the DHS bill.
Schumer said in a statement that Senate Democrats would not allow the current version of the DHS bill to advance, and argued that Senate Republicans «have seen the same horrific footage that all Americans have watched of the blatant abuses of Americans by ICE in Minnesota.»
«The appalling murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti on the streets of Minneapolis must lead Republicans to join Democrats in overhauling ICE and [Customs and Border Protection] to protect the public,» Schumer said. «People should be safe from abuse by their own government.»
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A protester, left, and a federal law enforcement officer argue outside a house on Jan. 18, 2026, in St. Paul, Minn. (Yuki Iwamura/AP)
«Senate Republicans must work with Democrats to advance the other five funding bills while we work to rewrite the DHS bill,» he continued. «This is the best course of action, and the American people are on our side.»
Senate Democrats held a private, caucus-wide call on the matter on Sunday. A source familiar with the call told Fox News Digital that Schumer’s plan to reject any DHS bill without several reforms, but that the broader, five-bill funding package could move ahead. Lawmakers could vote on the package as early as Thursday.
«Basically, DHS is the problem and should be split from the package,» they said.
But Senate Republicans aren’t willing to cave to Democrats’ demands, especially given how high a priority funding the agency is for the administration and how fast the Friday deadline to fund the government is approaching.
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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune speak at a press conference on the Republican budget bill at the U.S. Capitol on April 10, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
Democrats’ position creates several procedural headaches beyond their desire to, for now, shut off funding to DHS. Any modification to the package would require approval from the House, which is not in town until early next month.
And House Republican leadership has no desire to return to Washington, D.C., in the interim, leaving the onus on Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and his leadership team to carve out a solution to the growing funding problem.
While some Senate Republicans are demanding a thorough investigation of the shooting of Pretti, none have gone so far as to demand that DHS funding be withheld.
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GOP leaders aren’t willing to cut the bill out of the package just to give Democrats what they want, especially after the current Homeland Security bill was negotiated on a bipartisan basis.
A Senate Republican aide told Fox News Digital that Republicans were «determined to not have another government shutdown.»
«We will move forward as planned and hope Democrats can find a path forward to join us,» they said.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that a long-anticipated document on U.S. security guarantees is «100% ready» for signing, with Kyiv now waiting for its American partners to confirm the date and place before the agreement moves to ratification in both the U.S. Congress and the Ukrainian parliament.
«For us, security guarantees are first and foremost guarantees of security from the United States. The document is 100% ready,» Zelenskyy said Sunday at a joint press conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, with the presidents of Lithuania and Poland, according to a translation of his remarks from Reuters.
Zelenskyy reiterated at the press conference that Ukraine views membership in the European Union as another core security guarantee and is aiming to join the bloc by 2027, the Ukrainian president’s office said in a statement on its website.
His remarks come after Ukraine, Russia and the United States held trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi for two days over the weekend.
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Polish President Karol Nawrocki, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda attend a press conference following a Lublin Triangle meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Jan. 25, 2026. (Yauhen Yerchak/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Zelenskyy said on X that the discussions, which involved political and military representatives from all three sides, were «constructive» and focused on potential parameters for ending his country’s war with Russia.
RUSSIA LAUNCHES LARGEST ATTACK ON UKRAINE THIS MONTH FOLLOWING TRUMP’S MEETING WITH PUTIN, ZELENSKYY
The talks in the United Arab Emirates followed a meeting in Moscow on Thursday between Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and head of the Federal Acquisition Service Josh Gruenbaum.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin meets with U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner and Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner Josh Gruenbaum at the Kremlin in Moscow on Jan. 22, 2026. (Alexander Kazakov/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
Putin aide Yuri Ushakov said the «extremely frank» discussions lasted roughly four hours and included U.S. officials updating Moscow on their recent conversations with Ukrainian and European leaders, according to a summary of the meeting from the Kremlin.
Territorial issues remain a key obstacle in the negotiations, with Moscow pressing Kyiv to relinquish parts of eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region that Russian forces do not fully control.
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U.S. officials told Axios that negotiations examined the full range of unresolved issues, from Russia’s territorial demands in the Donbas to control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and potential steps to prevent a return to fighting.
Another U.S. official told the outlet a second round of talks is scheduled to take place on Feb. 1.
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