ICE Leaving Minnesota, DHS Funding Deadline, EPA Vehicle Emissions
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🗓️ 13 February 2026
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Congress is racing to fund the Department of Homeland Security before a shutdown, with Democrats demanding changes to immigration enforcement and negotiations still stalled.
And the Environmental Protection Agency is scrapping the legal basis for regulating greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks.
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(01:55) ICE Leaving Minnesota
(05:48) DHS Funding Deadline
(09:31) EPA Vehicle Emissions
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| 0:00.0 | Immigration agents are leaving Minnesota. They left us with deep damage. Generational trauma. They left us with economic ruin in some cases. |
| 0:11.7 | The governor wants the federal government to help pay for the damage. I'm Steven Ski with Lila Faddle, and this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:20.8 | Funding for the Department of Homeland Security runs out tonight. |
| 0:23.9 | The Senate could not get a spending bill passed because Democrats want concrete changes to ICE tactics. |
| 0:30.2 | Democrats will not support a blank check for chaos. |
| 0:34.4 | Which parts of the government are likely to shut down? |
| 0:36.7 | And the Environmental Protection Agency is abandoning regulations on greenhouse gases, |
| 0:41.7 | including vehicle emissions. |
| 0:43.5 | What could that mean for the auto industry and for drivers? |
| 0:46.4 | Stay with us. |
| 0:47.1 | We'll give you the news you need to start your day. |
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| 1:13.7 | Download the Wise app today or visit wise.com. T's and Cs apply. White House Borders are Tom Homan announced on Thursday that the surge of federal agents in Minnesota is coming to an end. |
| 1:20.3 | So what comes after most of those agents leave and who pays for the damage? The operation lasted more |
| 1:26.2 | than two months. And entirely aside from people |
| 1:29.0 | without legal status who were detained, the government seized American citizens, disrupted businesses, |
| 1:34.2 | triggered weeks of street protests, and killed two Americans each of them shot while on video. |
| 1:40.0 | Reporter Estelle Timar Wilcox of Minnesota Public Radio joins us now with more. Good morning, Estelle. |
| 1:46.0 | Good morning. So why did Tom Homan say this surge is ending in Minnesota? Well, Homan pretty much said mission accomplished. He said DHS agents have arrested more than 4,000 people. And he said cooperation from local elected officials and police has improved, |
| 2:02.6 | including Holman said, more access to undocumented inmates held at county jails here. |
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