"After noting that a government funding fight looms after 37-year-old Alex Pretti was shot and killed by a Border Patrol agent over the weekend, anchor Bret Baier asked Hume for a 30,000-foot political look at what happened over the weekend, while noting that there is deep frustration within the Trump administration over the Department of Homeland Security's reaction to Pretti's death."
"Well, I'll tell you who I think agrees with that, and that's the congressional Democrats, Senate Democrats in particular, who think that they might even, you know, be willing to do another government shutdown, poorly though they did in the last one, to keep up the fight on this whole issue of DHS and its excesses, or its alleged excesses, anyway, answered Hume."
"So I think that's kind of where we are. It's all, to some extent, a subset of the never-ending struggle against Donald Trump. But I think the extravagant statements by these DHS officials, ICE officials, and the DHS secretary over the weekend didn't play well. And such polling as there is, Bret, suggests that people think ICE and DHS have gone too far, and they're not winning the PR war in Minnesota."
A 37-year-old man, Alex Pretti, was shot and killed by a Border Patrol agent in Minnesota, creating a potential government funding fight. Deep frustration exists within the Trump administration over the Department of Homeland Security's reaction to the killing. Internal sources described DHS's response as poor crisis PR and warned that DHS is losing the base and the narrative. Senate Democrats may consider pressing the issue through another government shutdown. Polling suggests the public perceives ICE and DHS as having gone too far. The president sent Tom Homan to meet with Minnesota officials, indicating a different posture from DHS.
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