Trump administration vehemently defends ICE agent who killed US citizen in Minneapolis – live

Minnesota governor Tim Walz has authorized the state’s national guard troops “to be staged and ready to support local and state law enforcement in protecting critical infrastructure and maintaining public safety”.

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“Minnesotans have met this moment. Thousands of people have peacefully made their voices heard. Minnesota: thank you. We saw powerful peace,” Walz said in a statement announcing the order. “We have every reason to believe that peace will hold. Yesterday, I directed the National Guard to be ready should they be needed. They remain ready in the event they are needed to help keep the peace, ensure public safety, and allow for peaceful demonstrations.”

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Earlier in the day, lieutenant governor Peggy Flanagan told CNN the guard was on standby “out of an abundance of caution” although demonstrations had been peaceful so far.

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Republicans, including Donald Trump, criticized Walz after the 2020 murder of George Floyd by saying the governor should have deployed the state’s national guard sooner.

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In a statement, Walz said the Minnesota State Patrol has also mobilized 85 state troopers.

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The House of Representatives has passed legislation that would extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies, 230-196, with a handful of Republicans joining with Democrats to pass the measure despite opposition from Republican leadership.

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“Health care costs have skyrocketed for millions of families and this legislation will help bring costs down. This is a win for the American people,” the House Democratic Caucus wrote in a social media post.

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The legislation would extend ACA subsidies by three years. The bill will now move to the Senate where pressure to pass a similar bipartisan healthcare agreement is growing.

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The ICE agent involved in the lethal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good is Jonathan E Ross, according to court records that closely match the description of a June 2025 incident involving the agent in Bloomington, Minnesota, cited by the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, and JD Vance.

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Ross is a Minneapolis resident and 10-year veteran of the enforcement and removal operation’s special response team.

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• This blog post was amended on 8 January 2025 to correct the name of the ICE officer who shot Renee Nicole Good, which is Jonathan E Ross, not Johnathan David Ross.

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Donald Trump scolded the five Republican lawmakers who broke ranks and voted to advance a resolution that would limit the administration’s ability to carry out further military action in Venezuela.

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The president said that senators Lisa Murkowski, Todd Young, Josh Hawley, Susan Collins, and Rand Paul “should never be elected to office again”.

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In a post on Truth Social, Trump added that today’s vote “greatly hampers American Self Defense and National Security, impeding the President’s Authority as Commander in Chief”. He also called the War Powers Resolution – which inhibits a president’s ability to commit to an armed conflict without approval from Congress – as “unconstitutional”.

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Today’s procedural motion, tees up a full vote on the measure in the Senate. It’s longterm fate, however, remains precarious. The bill would still need to pass the House and would require Trump’s signature.

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  Vice-president JD Vance appeared at the White House news briefing today, and repeated claims that the ICE agent who killed Renee Nicole Good was acting in “self-defense”. Vance said that Good, 37, was “dead because she tried to ram somebody with her car”, and claimed, baselessly, that she was part of a “left wing network” of people trying to incite violence against federal law enforcement officers. The vice-president further defended the ICE agent in question, by noting that he was “dragged by a car six months ago” and might be “a little bit sensitive about somebody ramming him with an automobile”.

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  At a press conference in New York today, homeland security secretary Kristi Noem continued to say that the shooting was in response to an “act of domestic terrorism”. Noem said that the officer who killed Good was “following his training” when he shot the 37-year-old. She added that the ICE agent “was hit by the vehicle, went to hospital and received treatment, was released, and is spending time with his family now” before noting that he is an “experienced officer”. Noem also said she was “not opposed” to sending more federal immigration agents to Minneapolis “to keep people safe”.

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  As demonstrations in response to Wednesdays’s shooting continue throughout the state, attorney general Pam Bondi warned protesting Minnesotans to “not test our resolve”. She said that “obstructing, impeding, or attacking federal law enforcement is a federal crime” and noted that those who “cross that red line” will be “arrested and prosecuted”.

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  After news of the shooting, Donald Trump spoke with the New York Times and insisted that Good “behaved horribly”. According to the four reporters in the room, Trump replayed the eyewitness video of the incident. “She didn’t try to run him over, she ran him over,” he said. However, multiple angles of the shooting show Good reversing her car and letting at least one ICE vehicle pass before an officer tells her to get out of the car, she then tries to turn and drive away. The agent shoots her multiple times, remains on his feet and walks away apparently uninjured as her car crashes into a lamp-post and parked vehicle.

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The vice-president offered insight into the ICE agent’s actions that led to him killing Renee Nicole Good. He chastised the press for mis-reporting on the incident.

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“That very ICE officer nearly had his life ended, dragged by a car six months ago, 33 stitches in his leg,” Vance said. “So you think maybe he’s a little bit sensitive about somebody ramming him with an automobile.”

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Vice-president JD Vance doubled down on the administration’s claim that the ICE agent who killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis on Wednesday was acting in self-defense.

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“This was an attack on law and order,” he said. “This was an attack on the American people. The way that the media by and large has reported this story has been an absolute disgrace, and it puts our law enforcement officers at risk every single day.”

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At the White House today, press secretary Karoline Leavitt kicked off her briefing addressing the fatal shooting in Minneapolis by an ICE agent.

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She said that the “deadly incident” occurred as a result of a “larger, sinister left wing movement that has spread across our country”, adding that federal law enforcement are under “organized attack”.

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The press secretary cited a recent DHS statistic that there has been an almost 1200% increase in “assaults and violence” against federal immigration agents.

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Minnesota governor Tim Walz expressed doubt that a “fair outcome” will be achieved following the killing of Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration agent in a press briefing today.

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The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) announced that it would be withdrawing from the investigation into the fatal shooting after federal authorities blocked BCA from accessing evidence and materials from the case.

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“Now that Minnesota has been taken out of the investigation, it feels very, very difficult that we will get a fair outcome,” Walz said. “And I say that only because people in positions of power have already passed judgment, from the president to the vice president to Kristi Noem have stood and told you things that are verifiably false, verifiably inaccurate. They have determined the character of a 37-year-old mom that they didn’t even know.”

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He went on to say that Noem had assumed the role of “judge, jury and basically executioner yesterday.”

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The Trump administration will deploy more than 100 US Customs and Border Protection agents and officers to Minnesota following the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration agent, the New York Times has reported.

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The agents will be redirected from operations in Chicago and New Orleans with the deployment expected to last until Sunday, the newspaper reported, citing documents it obtained.

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The report comes as local officials, including Minnesota governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey, have called on federal law enforcement to leave the state.

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Speaking to reporters today, the homeland security secretary said that she is “not opposed” to sending more federal immigration agents to Minneapolis “to keep people safe”, following Wednesday’s fatal shooting.

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Prior to Good’s death, the Trump administration had already sent thousands of ICE agents to Minnesota as part of a wider immigration crackdown.

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At today’s press conference, Kristi Noem repeated her claim that the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration agent was in response to “an act of domestic terrorism”.

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The homeland security secretary said that the officer who killed Good was “following his training” when he shot the 37-year-old.

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These individuals had followed our officers all day, had harassed them, had blocked them in. They were impeding our law enforcement operations, which is against the law, and when they demanded and commanded her [Good] to get out of her vehicle, several times, she did not.

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The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) – the state’s top investigative agency – announced today that it would be withdrawing from the investigation into the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis by a federal immigration agent.

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In a statement, BCA superintendent Drew Evans said the investigation would now be “solely led FBI”, noting that that federal authorities have blocked BCA from accessing “case materials, scene evidence or investigative interviews necessary to complete a thorough and independent investigation”.

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Evans added that without “complete access to the evidence” BCA would have to “reluctantly” withdraw from the ongoing investigation.

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The Senate voted to take up a Democratic-led war powers resolution that would limit the Trump administration’s ability for more military action in Venezuela.

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In a vote of 52-47, the measured advanced with the support of a handful of Republicans.

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At a press conference today, top House Democrat Hakeem Jeffries called the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent an “abomination” and a “disgrace”.

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“Blood is clearly on the hands of those individuals within the administration who have been pushing an extreme policy that has nothing to do with immigration enforcement connected to removing violent felons from this country,” the minority leader added.

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Jeffries called Trump’s homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, a “stone cold liar” and pushed back on the administration’s claims that Good was a “domestic terrorist” and “agitator”.

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“There’s no evidence at all that this was a justified shooting, so let’s deal with the tragedy right now. She hasn’t even been buried, her family is grieving,” Jeffries said.

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Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, speaking alongside his lower chamber counterpart, told reporters today that watching the video of Good’s killing felt like “your stomach was being punched”.

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“There seemed no justification for what these agents did,” the Senate’s top Democrat said. “There needs to be a full investigation at the federal level, although I have little faith in the FBI is doing a fair investigation, or DHS, but at the local level as well.”

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My colleague, Richard Luscombe, reports that authorities in Minneapolis canceled school classes across the city on Thursday amid safety concerns and rising political tension, following the killing of Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration agent during a large-scale enforcement operation.

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In a wide-ranging interview with the New York Times, Donald Trump repeated his claims that the ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good acted in self-defense.

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The president, when asked by Times reporters how he decided that Good attempted to run over the immigration agent who shot her, asked an aide to replay video footage of the incident.

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“She behaved horribly,” Trump told the Times. “And then she ran him over. She didn’t try to run him over. She ran him over.”

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Notably, the reporters in the room said that the video they president played did not appear to show Good running over the ICE agent.

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Instead, it shows her backing up after another agent attempts to get her out of the car, moving forward and attempting to turn before she is shot.

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“It’s a terrible scene,” the president said. “I think it’s horrible to watch. No, I hate to see it.”

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We won’t hear from Donald Trump on Thursday, per his official schedule. The president has several engagements, including a photo with US attorneys and a policy meeting, all of which are closed to the press.

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However, our attention will turn to Capitol Hill later when the Senate will vote on a Democratic-led resolution to limit any further military action by the administration in Venezuela. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia is leading the charge, alongside his Republican colleague and frequent Trump dissident Rand Paul, but will need to get at least three more Republicans on side for the measure to pass.

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We’ll be keeping an eye out for that, as well as two votes in the House, one of which is a three-year extension of the Affordable Care Act subsidies which lapsed at the end of last year. A reminder that a procedural measure, known as a discharge petition, picked up the 218 signatures needed to force a vote on the House floor. It’ll head to the Senate after that where its fate remains uncertain.

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The lower chamber will also vote on a three-bill appropriations package which would fund key agencies, including the justice department, Department of Commerce, the energy department and the Environmental Protection Agency.

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There are more anti-ICE protests planned across the United States today, with rallies expected in New York, North Carolina and Texas.

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The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) in North Carolina’s Triangle region has organized a protest in Durham, North Carolina, scheduled for 6pm at CCB Plaza, a public square in the city center.

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The same organization has also planned another protest in Fayetteville, North Carolina, taking place at 433 Hay Street, also at 6pm, according to local media reports.

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Meanwhile, more demonstrations are planned in New York City later today after crowds gathered at Foley Square, marching to 26 Federal Plaza, a major US government building that houses homeland security offices, yesterday.

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Details of rallies planned today in Houston, Utah and San Diego have also been shared on social media.

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Cable news networks sprung into action on Wednesday to cover the breaking news of a woman killed by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis, rushing correspondents to the scene and bringing on former government officials and legal analysts to offer commentary.

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The three main cable networks’ on-screen graphics framed the incident slightly differently. Fox News referred to it as a “Deadly ICE-involved Shooting”, while CNN said more plainly: “ICE Officer Kills Woman in Minneapolis.”

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The progressive network MS NOW – formerly MSNBC – also characterized the incident in part as “Agent Kills Woman” in an on-screen graphic.

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Both CNN and Fox News brought on former officials from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide analysis based on their government experience, though their conclusions differed.

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John Sandweg, who served as acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during the Obama administration, questioned whether the federal agents had been properly trained and vetted.

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“My immediate concern is this: to what extent has this rushing of hiring of people – this shortcutting on our training – to what extent might that have informed what happened here,” he said on CNN.

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Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. My name is Tom Ambrose and I will be bringing you the latest news lines over the next few hours.

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We start with news that protests have been taking place across the US following the fatal shooting of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer taking part in the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown.

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The shooting marked a dramatic escalation of the latest in a series of immigration enforcement operations in major cities under the Trump administration. Wednesday’s is at least the fifth death linked to the crackdowns, AP reported.

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The Twin Cities have been on edge since the Department of Homeland Security announced the operation’s launch on Tuesday, at least partly tied to allegations of fraud involving Somali residents.

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A crowd of protesters gathered at the scene after the shooting to vent their anger at local and federal officers. In a scene that hearkened back to crackdowns in Los Angeles and Chicago, people chanted “ICE out of Minnesota” and blew whistles that have become ubiquitous during the operations.

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The governor, Tim Walz, said he was prepared to deploy the national guard if necessary and expressed outrage over the shooting but called on people to keep protests peaceful.

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“They want a show,” Walz said. “We can’t give it to them.”

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There were calls on social media to prosecute the officer who shot Renee Nicole Macklin Good. Commissioner Bob Jacobson of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety said state authorities would investigate the shooting with federal authorities.

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  The full Senate on Wednesday heard details of the 3 January attack, which involved US special forces from Delta Force swooping into Venezuela before dawn to seize Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. Republicans have rallied behind Trump’s characterization of the raid as a straightforward law enforcement action to arrest an indicted drug trafficker. Democrats warn of an illegal act of war that could plunge Venezuela into chaos and set a dangerous precedent for unilateral presidential action.

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Colorado’s attorney general says the Trump administration’s decision to end federal funding for certain state programs is part of a “revenge campaign” over false claims Donald Trump won the 2020 election. Colorado has refused to free an elections clerk who was convicted of organizing a data breach scheme based on claims fraud led to Trump’s defeat.

Attorney general Phil Weiser, who sued the Trump administration in October over plans to move US Space Command out of the state, amended his lawsuit today to include other federal funding cuts to Colorado. Those include the administration’s decision to withhold funding for programs that support needy families with children in five Democratic-led states, including Colorado.

Walz authorizes national guard to prepare to deploy

Minnesota governor Tim Walz has authorized the state’s national guard troops “to be staged and ready to support local and state law enforcement in protecting critical infrastructure and maintaining public safety”.

“Minnesotans have met this moment. Thousands of people have peacefully made their voices heard. Minnesota: thank you. We saw powerful peace,” Walz said in a statement announcing the order. “We have every reason to believe that peace will hold. Yesterday, I directed the National Guard to be ready should they be needed. They remain ready in the event they are needed to help keep the peace, ensure public safety, and allow for peaceful demonstrations.”

Earlier in the day, lieutenant governor Peggy Flanagan told CNN the guard was on standby “out of an abundance of caution” although demonstrations had been peaceful so far.

Republicans, including Donald Trump, criticized Walz after the 2020 murder of George Floyd by saying the governor should have deployed the state’s national guard sooner.

In a statement, Walz said the Minnesota State Patrol has also mobilized 85 state troopers.

Here’s more on the House vote to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies from my colleague Chris Stein:

All Democrats voted for the measure along with 17 Republicans, many of whom were moderates who said they could not tolerate a hike in healthcare costs for their constituents, but acknowledged the House measure will likely be revised by the Republican-controlled Senate before it is enacted .

“I am voting in favor of this discharge and of this legislation to send it to the Senate, so that the Senate will have the opportunity to put forth a reform package that can pass Congress and become law,” Republican congressman Mike Lawler said during a preliminary vote on the bill on Wednesday.

Trump has opposed extending the tax credits, and the Senate last month rejected a Democratic-backed measure similar to the bill that passed the House. Experts expect that premiums for enrollees of the plans will roughly double without the subsidies.

The Republican speaker, Mike Johnson, has opposed the credits , arguing they would enable fraud while calling the landmark 2010 law passed under Barack Obama the “Unaffordable Care Act”. Democrats made an extension to a centerpiece of their demands during the record-long government shutdown that began in October, while moderate Republicans sought to strike a compromise that would be palatable to both parties.

But after Johnson refused to bring any deal to the floor, four Republicans last month signed a discharge petition that forced a vote on the legislation extending the credits for three years, in a significant rebuke of the speaker.

House bill passes to extend ACA subsidies

The House of Representatives has passed legislation that would extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies, 230-196, with a handful of Republicans joining with Democrats to pass the measure despite opposition from Republican leadership.

“Health care costs have skyrocketed for millions of families and this legislation will help bring costs down. This is a win for the American people,” the House Democratic Caucus wrote in a social media post.

The legislation would extend ACA subsidies by three years. The bill will now move to the Senate where pressure to pass a similar bipartisan healthcare agreement is growing.

Minnesota officials expressed frustration with the FBI and Justice Department’s decision to block the state from participating in an investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, and are considering ways the state might undertake its own investigation.

“We want to make sure that there is a check on this administration to ensure that this investigation is done for justice, not for the sake of a cover up,” said Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey.

Hennepin County attorney Mary Moriarty said her office is “exploring all options to ensure a state level investigation can continue” and that they’re “speaking to our local partners on paths forward.”

A bipartisan group of lawmakers has asked a US District Court to appoint a special master to compel the Justice Department to release the Epstein files. A special master is a neutral, third-party official appointed by a judge to make sure judicial orders are followed.

Congressmembers Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California, and Thomas Massie, a Republican from Kentucky, sent a letter to Judge Paul Engelmayer of the Southern District of New York requesting the appointment.

“The Department of Justice is openly defying the law by refusing to release the full Epstein files. Millions of files are being kept from the public,” Khanna said in a press release announcing the letter. “The DOJ has failed to make the necessary redactions to protect survivors while removing records after publication without any explanation. That is why we are requesting the appointment of a Special Master to oversee the release of the files and ensure that the DOJ is following the law.”

“Attorney General Pam Bondi is egregiously violating the requirements of the Epstein Files Transparency Act,” said Massie. “Under her leadership, the Department of Justice is missing statutory disclosure deadlines, making excessive redactions, and illegally withholding the Department’s internal communications. Because the Department of Justice has shown it cannot be trusted with making the disclosures required by law, a Special Master should be appointed to oversee the release of the Epstein files.”

Khanna and Massie wrote the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which required the Justice Department to release the files by 19 December.

A day after Renee Nicole Good was killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, immigration raids in the Minnesota city are ongoing, clergy have gathered in remembrance of Good and protesters are demonstrating against the fatal shooting.

Here are a few photographs of the scene on the ground in Minneapolis from the wires:

Chris Stein

Donald Trump issued the first vetoes of his second term late last month, nixing two measures to fund a Colorado drinking water project and the protection of part of the Everglades in Florida.

The bills were uncontroversial enough to pass Congress unanimously, but Republicans in the House of Representatives just declined to override the vetoes, a reminder that the president retains significant sway over GOP lawmakers despite high-profile setbacks over the Jeffrey Epstein case and Affordable Care Act subsidies.

The House needed a two-thirds majority to undo the vetoes, but the Florida measure received only 236 in favor and 188 opposed, while the Colorado bill picked up 248 in favor and 177 against – not enough, in either case, to undo the president’s rejections.

Both vetoes appear to be retaliatory actions by Trump against parties who have defied him. In the Colorado case, the water project lay in the district of Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert, one of the lawmakers who had championed the bill to release the Epstein files.

“I sincerely hope this veto has nothing to do with political retaliation for calling out corruption and demanding accountability,” Boebert said in a statement to a local broadcaster after the veto.

In the Florida case, the protected area is inhabited by the Miccosukee Tribe of Native Americans, which has clashed with Trump over the “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention facility that lies elsewhere in the Everglades.

Here’s more about the vetoes:

Members of Donald Trump’s administration met with representatives from Greenland and Denmark today to discuss the president’s renewed push to “takeover” the island.

The Associated Press reports that Trump administration officials met with Denmark’s ambassador, Jesper Møller Sørensen, and Greenland’s chief representative to Washington, Jacob Isbosethsen. The White House did not respond to a request for comment about the meeting from the outlet.

Here’s more of our past reporting on the president’s ambitions for the Arctic island:

Lauren Gambino

In his final state of the state address, California Governor Gavin Newsom assailed the Trump administration for inciting a “carnival of chaos,” warning: “None of this is normal.”

“In Washington, the president believes that might makes right, that the courts are simply speed bumps, not stop signs, and that democracy is a nuisance to be circumvented,” Newsom said in his address, speaking from the state Capitol in Sacramento to a joint session of the legislature.

Referencing Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown, he continued: “Secret police, businesses being raided, windows smashed, citizens detained, Citizens shot, masked men snatching people in broad daylight, people disappearing, using American cities as training grounds for the United States military.”

Newsom, who is widely expected to run for president in 2028, has governed California through historic periods of crisis that overlapped with the end of Trump’s first term, and the first years of his second, as well as the pandemic and the LA fires.

In his address, Newsom cast the state as an American “marvel” and a bulwark against the “twisted nostalgia” of the Trump administration. Pre-empting some of the criticism he will surely face from Republicans should he seek the White House, Newsom argued vigorously that his state still leads the country – and the world – in culture, technology, education and agriculture.

“Every year, the declinists, the pundits and critics suffering from California derangement syndrome look at this state and try to tear down our progress,” he said, touting an environment that has created the “conditions where dreamers and doers and misfits and marvelers with grit and ingenuity get to build and do the impossible”.

As if offering a bit of advice to a potential presidential campaign, the president’s tormentor-in-chief said: “If we’re going to keep the faith of the California spirit we’ve got to do more than just resist what is wrong.”

“We’re not defined by what we’re against,” he added. “We’re defined by what we’re for.”

Today, the Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution to display a commemorative plaque to honor Capitol police and other officers who defended Congress during the January 6 riots.

The plaque will be placed in the Senate wing of the US Capitol until it is permanently installed on building’s west front.

Despite a law approving the plaque’s display passing three years ago, it has never been officially hung. Today, outgoing senator Thom Tillis brought the resolution to the floor, which received no objection by lawmakers.

Ali Winston

According to court records, Ross was involved in the June arrest of Roberto Carlos Muñoz, an undocumented Mexican immigrant with an open immigration detainer and a criminal conviction for sexually assaulting his 16-year-old stepdaughter in 2022.

Muñoz was contacted at his residence in Bloomington, Minnesota, by a group of federal agents on 19 June 2025.

According to an affidavit from an FBI agent, Muñoz was in his car when federal law enforcement approached him. He did not comply with commands to get out of his vehicle and drove away. The feds pursued Muñoz and conducted a traffic stop. An enforcement and removal operation (ERO) agent and an FBI agent approached the car and ordered Muñoz in both English and Spanish to put the car in park and provide documentation, which he did. When the ERO agent ordered Muñoz to exit the car, he refused.

At this point, according to the affidavit, the ERO agent broke the rear driver’s side window of Muñoz’s car and tried to unlock the driver’s door.

Muñoz threw the car into drive, speeding off with the agent trapped in the vehicle by his arm and dragged behind the car for 100 yards down the street along the curb, weaving past several cars. The agent was jarred loose from the window, and fell into the street, and Muñoz drove off. The agent suffered serious lacerations on both arms, which required 33 stitches in total to close.

At the White House on Thursday, Vance engaged in a lengthy defense of the officer’s actions and said: “[T]hat very ICE officer nearly had his life ended, dragged by a car six months ago, 33 stitches in his leg. So you think maybe he’s a little bit sensitive about somebody ramming him with an automobile.” The court documents indicate the stitches were on Ross’s arms and hand, not his leg.

ICE agent in Minneapolis killing identified as 10-year law enforcement veteran

Ali Winston

The ICE agent involved in the lethal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good is Jonathan E Ross, according to court records that closely match the description of a June 2025 incident involving the agent in Bloomington, Minnesota, cited by the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, and JD Vance.

Ross is a Minneapolis resident and 10-year veteran of the enforcement and removal operation’s special response team.

This blog post was amended on 8 January 2025 to correct the name of the ICE officer who shot Renee Nicole Good, which is Jonathan E Ross, not Johnathan David Ross.