Number of Democrats say they will vote against DHS funding bill amid alarm over ICE tactics – as it happened

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Our live coverage is ending now. In the meantime, you can find all of our live US politics coverage here. Here is a summary of the key developments from today:

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  On the first anniversary of his second inauguration, Donald Trump joined White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt at a press briefing, where he launched into a two-hour-long, rambling address that drew from a prepared binder of “accomplishments” since he took office last year. During the briefing, Trump called Renee Nicole Good’s death a ‘tragedy’ after learning her parents were fans of hist administration; and said the world will “find out” how far he is willing to go to acquire Greenland.

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  In a spree of Truth Social posts overnight, Trump posted an altered image of himself, planting a US flag in Greenland, alongside JD Vance and secretary of state Marco Rubio. Asked during a press conference today about the risk his Greenland plan poses to the future of the Nato alliance, Trump said: “Something is going to happen which will be very good for everybody.” Meanwhile, at Davos, California governor Gavin Newsom decried Europeans for their “complicity” in failing to stand up to Trump’s demands.

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  The justice department subpoenaed several top officials in Minnesota as part of its investigation into whether Minneapolis officials have conspired to impede federal immigration efforts there. Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey, Minnesota’s governor, Tim Walz, the state attorney general, Keith Ellison, the Hennepin county attorney, Mary Moriarty, and St Paul’s mayor, Kaohly Her, all Democrats, received subpoenas.

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  A federal judge in Washington DC ruled that the homeland security department (DHS) can continue to insist that lawmakers provide a week’s notice of their intention to inspect immigration facilities, even though she blocked an identical policy last month.

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  Multiple democrats say they will not vote to fund the Department of Homeland Security, hours after the Appropriations Committees released the text of the Homeland Security funding bill.

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  Louisiana congresswoman Julia Letlow officially announced her bid for Senate after receiving a “complete and total” social media endorsement from Donald Trump over the weekend. Letlow, a Republican, is issuing a primary challenge to two-term GOP incumbent Bill Cassidy.

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  Lindsey Halligan, Trump’s former personal lawyer who was appointed interim US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia in September, has left her position, says attorney general Pam Bondi.

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  The California Republican Party has asked the state supreme court to block a redistricting measure voters approved in November that would flip up to five House seats in Democrats’ favor.

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  Trump signed an executive order today aimed at “stopping Wall Street from competing with Main Street homebuyers” following recent social media posts from the president regarding the affordability of housing.

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Multiple democrats say they will not vote to fund the Department of Homeland Security, hours after the Appropriations Committees released the text of the Homeland Security funding bill.

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“The proposed Appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security released today puts no meaningful constraints on the growing lawlessness of ICE, and increases funding for detention over the last Appropriations bill passed in 2024,” said Connecticut senator Chris Murphy. “Democrats have no obligation to support a bill that not only funds the dystopian scenes we are seeing in Minneapolis but will allow DHS to replicate that playbook of brutality in cities all over this country.”

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“I am a hard no on funding this out-of-control agency. The American people demand accountability,” said New Mexico congresswoman Melanie Stansbury.

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“Congress is voting on a bipartisan bill to triple ICE funding. I’m leading the opposition,” said California congressman Ro Khanna.

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“I will not vote to give ICE a single cent,” said Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar. “No more blank checks for a rogue agency that operates above the law, escalates violence, and erodes our most basic freedoms.”

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In a statement following the release of the funding bill, House Appropriations Committee ranking member Rosa DeLauro, a Democrat from Connecticut said:

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“I understand that many of my Democratic colleagues may be dissatisfied with any bill that funds ICE. I share their frustration with the out-of-control agency,” she said. “The Homeland Security funding bill is more than just ICE. If we allow a lapse in funding, TSA agents will be forced to work without pay, FEMA assistance could be delayed, and the U.S. Coast Guard will be adversely affected. All while ICE continues functioning without any change in their operations due to $75 billion it received in the One Big Beautiful Bill. A continuing resolution will jettison the guardrails we have secured while ceding authority to President Trump, Stephen Miller, and Secretary Noem.”

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When a reporter asked Trump about what would happen to the tariffs he has slapped on allies (in response to their disapproval over his plans to annex Greenland) should the supreme court rule that his use of duties without congressional approval is illegal, the president said that he would “have to use something else”.

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He added: “I mean we have other alternatives, but what we’re doing now is the best, the strongest, the fastest, the easiest, the least complicated.”

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When asked about Americans who are still feeling the impact of high prices, the president chalked it up to reporting by the “fake news”.

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“Many of the groceries have come way down. It’s all happening, and it’s happening strong,” Trump said. He blamed Democrats for creating the “affordability problem” and his administration is “solving it”.

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According to most recent data, inflation persists and the cost of food rose by 0.7% at the end of 2025.

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Speaking at the White House today, Donald Trump said the administration is “working with Harvard right now”.

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“We have a deal, but who the hell knows with them,” the president said of the ongoing antisemitism lawsuit with the US’s oldest university. Last year, a judge restored billions of dollars in research funding to Harvard, a decision the Trump administration appealed.

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“I hope our people know that we’re not going to pay sanctuary cities,” Trump repeated at the White House today. The president has routinely insisted that he plans to scrap funding to states that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. However, his administration has been blocked from withholding funds by a federal judge.

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Trump noted that his actions will probably result in those affected suing the government.

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The president just claimed, falsely, that crime in Washington DC is “almost down to nothing”.

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A reminder that last year Donald Trump federalized the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and deployed national guard troops to the nation’s capital, citing a public safety emergency.

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According to MPD data, total crime in the district only decreased by 17% by the end of 2025, compared to the previous year. There were still 2,476 violent crimes committed throughout 2025.

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The president, in a departure from much of his administration’s rhetoric, called the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good “a tragedy”.

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Many Trump officials, including the president himself, have claimed – without evidence –that Good was a “paid agitator” and part of a “radical left-wing network”.

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Today, in the White House briefing room, Trump called Good’s death “a horrible thing” and “ICE would say the same thing”.

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The president said he recently learned that Good’s parents –particularly her father – were “tremendous” Trump fans.

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“He was all for Trump. Loved Trump, and it’s terrible,” the president said. “I was told that by a lot of people. They said, ‘oh, he loves you’… I hope he still feels that way.”

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The president continued to disparage representative Ilhan Omar today, calling her “a crooked congressman”, and repeated a xenophobic rant about the Somali community in Minnesota.

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“They don’t have anything that resembles a country. And if it is a country, it’s considered just about the worst in the world. They come here and they become rich and they don’t have a job,” the president said.

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The president has appeared at the White House press briefing. Stunned by the number reporters in the room, Trump said he thinks it’s “a record”.

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He started the briefing today by showing the press a binder of “accomplishments”.

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“I could stand here and read it for a week and we wouldn’t be finished,” Trump said. My colleague, David Smith, is in the briefing room and captured the moment below.

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At White House press briefing. Donald Trump: “These are accomplishments – a lot of accomplishments.” pic.twitter.com/NzPPOYgrx9

— David Smith (@SmithInAmerica) January 20, 2026

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We’ll be hearing from White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt in a short while, where she will brief reporters on Donald Trump’s first year back in office and will no doubt face questions on his preoccupation with Greenland. Per the press pool, the president will also be there. We’ll bring you all the key lines here, so stay tuned.

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Louisiana congresswoman Julia Letlow officially announced her bid for Senate on Tuesday after receiving a “complete and total” social media endorsement from Donald Trump over the weekend.

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Letlow, a Republican, is issuing a primary challenge to two-term GOP incumbent Bill Cassidy.

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“I know Julia well, have seen her tested at the highest and most difficult levels, and she is a TOTAL WINNER!,” the president wrote on Truth Social, after hearing that Letlow was considering entering the Louisiana Senate race. “RUN, JULIA, RUN!!!”

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A reminder that Cassidy, a former physician who serves as chair of the Senate health, labor and pensions committee, was one of seven senators who voted to convict the president of inciting an insurrection during his second impeachment trial after the 2021 Capitol riots.

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In the year since Trump returned to the White House, Cassidy has sought to avoid the president’s ire by casting the deciding vote to confirmhealth secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. This, despite the lawmaker’s numerous misgivings about Kennedy’s past comments undermining the safety and efficacy of vaccines.

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Cassidy has since pushed back against Kennedy’s handling of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), including at a bipartisan committee hearing in September when the senator accused the health secretary of “effectively denying people the vaccine”, after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved new Covid-19 inoculations but placed restrictions on who would be able to access them.

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In a video announcement on Tuesday, explaining her decision to enter the race, Letlow said that in “a state as conservative as ours [Louisiana], we shouldn’t have to wonder how our senator will vote when the pressure is on.”

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The lawmaker, who won a 2021 special election after her husband – Luke Letlow – died from complications of Covid-19 five days before he was set to be sworn into office, thanked Donald Trump for his backing and praised his policy agenda.

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“Our president is keeping his promises,” she said. “I have fought alongside President Trump to put America first, standing up for our parents, securing our borders, supporting law enforcement, rooting out waste, fraud and abuse that drives up inflation, and fighting to fix an education system to focus on woke ideology instead of teaching.”

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In response to Letlow’s announcement, Cassidy said that he had heard from the congresswoman this morning – when she called him to say she was running for office. “She said she respected me and that I had done a good job. I will continue to do a good job when I win re-election. I am a conservative who wakes up every morning thinking about how to make Louisiana and the United States a better place to live,” Cassidy said in a statement.

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The supreme court did not issue a decision today on the legality of Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs.

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It’s not immediately clear the next date the court will issue opinions.

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A second man being held at a US immigration detention facility in Texas has died in two weeks, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said on Monday.

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Victor Manuel Diaz, 36, originally from Nicaragua, was found “unconscious and unresponsive in his room” on 14 January at the Camp East Montana detention facility in El Paso, ICE said in a press release.

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“They immediately notified contract medical staff on site to conduct life saving measures,” it said, adding that emergency medical technicians arrived to the facility but could not revive Diaz, who was pronounced dead just after 4pm. ICE asserted that Diaz “died of a presumed suicide” but that the “official cause of his death remains under investigation”.

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Diaz was detained on 6 January during the Trump administration’s controversial deportation blitz in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He initially entered the US through the Mexican border in March of 2024, when border patrol agents picked him up and he was given a court date with an immigration judge, then released on parole.

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On 26 August of last year an immigration judge ordered Diaz’s removal “in absentia”. ICE detained him on 12 January in order to deport him. The extensive tent facility is located on the Fort Bliss military base in El Paso …

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Another man, Geraldo Lunas Campos, 55, who immigrated to the US from Cuba, died in the same detention camp on 3 January. ICE said Campos was “experiencing medical distress” and that staff provided emergency treatment in the hopes of saving him. His death is potentially being investigated as a homicide.

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You can read the full story here:

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In other news, a federal judge has refused to temporarily block the Trump administration from enforcing a new policy requiring a week’s notice before members of Congress can visit – and thereby inspect – immigration detention facilities.

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Judge Jia M. Cobb of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia concluded that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) didn’t violate an earlier court order when it reimposed a seven-day notice requirement for congressional oversight visits to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities (you can read her judgment here).

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Judge Cobb, an appointee of Democratic former president Joe Biden, had blocked a virtually identical policy by the DHS last month, citing a clause in the appropriations law that funds the department and requires facilities to be open to congressional scrutiny.

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However, ICE reestablished the visitation policy on 8 January 2026, with the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, ordering the DHS to re-impose the seven-day notice requirement – but “exclusively with money appropriated by the (One Big Beautiful Bill Act),” not regular appropriations, effectively bypassing the previous court order.

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The background to this is that last June, a dozen House Democrats who were blocked from visiting immigration detention facilities sued the Trump administration, accusing it of unlawfully obstructing their efforts to visit federal immigration detention centers.

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Members of Congress had tried to visit the facilities amid reports of inhumane and unsanitary conditions. Thirty-two people died in ICE custody last year, the highest number of fatalities in two decades. At least five people have reportedly died in ICE custody so far this year.

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In her ruling on Monday, Judge Cobb said the plaintiffs’ attorneys representing Democratic members of Congress used the wrong “procedural vehicle” to challenge the new policy and said the lawmakers would need to revise their complaint. She did not rule on the legality of the policy.

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Hawaii, which has some of the strictest gun laws in the United States, will see its regulations challenged before the supreme court on Tuesday.

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The court will consider the legality of the state’s law that bans people from bringing firearms on private property open to the public unless they have permission from the property owner.

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The case, Wolford v Lopez, was brought by three Maui residents with concealed-carry permits and a local gun group.

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Good morning, and welcome to our live coverage of US politics. The much-anticipated US supreme court ruling on the legality of Donald Trump’s tariffs is expected in the coming weeks, and possibly as early as Tuesday, according to the Reuters news agency.

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Those challenging the tariffs, which include some small businesses and US states, argue the president exceeded his authority when imposing the sweeping levies last year.

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Two lower courts have already found that the president did not have the authority to impose global tariffs, which were brought in using emergency powers allowing the president to issue immediate orders and bypass Congress.

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The supreme court, which is dominated by conservative justices, could throw out the tariffs – the cornerstone of Trump’s economic agenda – and force the president to send refunds to the US importers that paid them.

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But if the supreme court does rule Trump overstepped his authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA, to impose the tariffs, the White House has other ways it can bring in import taxes.

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In a 15 January interview with the NY Times published on Monday, the US trade representative, Jamieson Greer, said the administration would “start the next day” to replace the tariffs with other levies if the ruling went against Trump.

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“The reality is the president is going to have tariffs as part of his trade policy going forward,” Greer said. Last week, Trump said it would be “a complete mess” if the court were to strike down his trade tariffs, which he said would be difficult to reverse because businesses and countries could claim refunds.

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