Sen. Warren urges lawmakers to ‘vote hell no’ on ICE funding
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🗓️ 26 January 2026
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Then, the budget for ICE is part of a package of spending bills that must pass in the Senate on Friday to avoid a partial government shutdown. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) explains why she’s urging lawmakers to vote no on ICE funding.
And, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington, D.C., traveled to Minneapolis last week with other faith leaders. She shares why she’s speaking out against the surge of immigration agents in Minneapolis.
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| 0:33.0 | The words of Alex Preti, a nurse who tended to veterans |
| 0:36.7 | and was shot dead in the street by immigration agents. |
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| 0:58.8 | Today on the show, Senator Elizabeth Warren says Democrats will oppose more funding for ICE after immigration agents killed a second person in Minneapolis over the weekend. |
| 1:08.4 | There have to be restraints on ice. |
| 1:12.0 | They can't just come in to our communities, terrorize people, and make people less safe because |
| 1:19.9 | they are there. |
| 1:20.9 | It's time for some real constraints and time for some real accountability. |
| 1:25.3 | Also, the Episcopal Bishop of D.C., who last year told the |
| 1:29.1 | president to have mercy on immigrants, stands in solidarity with other clergy bearing witness in Minnesota. |
| 1:35.8 | Thousands of Minnesotans are choosing to respond to what seems to be a deliberate policy of fear |
| 1:43.5 | and violence with incredible acts of neighborly love. |
| 1:49.3 | Those acts of neighborly love in the Twin Cities include people attending vigils, |
| 1:54.2 | getting together block by block to support one another, and trying to carry on with normal life |
| 2:00.0 | after a second killing by immigration agents |
| 2:02.6 | there in less than three weeks. Governor Tim Walls activated 1,500 National Guard troops to support |
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