US Senate Democratic minority leader Chuck Schumer speaking at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on Friday. Photograph: Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images
Funding lapsed for several US government departments on Saturday, the result of a standoff in Congress over new restrictions on federal agents involved in Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign following the killings of two US citizens in Minneapolis.
The partial government shutdown is the result of Democratic senators refusing to vote for a Bill authorising continued spending by the department of homeland security (DHS), after federal agents killed Alex Pretti in Minnesota’s largest city last week, and Renee Good earlier in January.
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