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Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast for Tuesday, January 27th.

I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House.

I'm Sam Greenglass. I cover Congress.

And I'm Domenico Montanar, senior political editor and correspondent. And we are recording

this at 1.10 p.m. Eastern Time. And today on the show, Congress may be headed toward a partial

government shutdown. Last week, it seemed like lawmakers were on track to approve a package of

bipartisan spending bills ahead of a government funding deadline at the end of the month.

But that all changed after federal immigration officers killed 37-year-old Alex Preddy on Saturday.

Senate Democrats now say they will not vote to fund the Department of Homeland Security without

major changes to the bill. And that puts all of the other remaining funding

measures in peril, too. So, Sam, what are Democrats asking for? Yeah, so Democrats think there is an

opportunity here to use the funding bill to rein in federal immigration tactics. They're asking

for reforms like mandating warrants for immigration arrests,

prohibiting immigration officers from concealing their identity, requiring officers to use

body cameras, and to stop raids at churches, hospitals, and schools. There have been a bunch of

ideas floated around, and those are just a handful of

them. Yeah, I mean, look, Democrats, which seems to be constant here, are under pressure to do something,

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