Congress on Tuesday afternoon gave final approval to an agreement that funds multiple US government agencies through September, ending a short partial shutdown — even as an impasse over immigration continues.

The brothers of Renee Good, a U.S. citizen killed by an immigration officer in Minneapolis, are urging Congress to take action.

Democrats say they will not support a spending bill to keep the Homeland Security Department running without new restrictions on federal agents.

House Speaker Mike Johnson voiced confidence that Congress will agree on measures to restrain federal immigration enforcement after a national outcry over the killings of two US citizens in Minnesota.

Congress is barreling toward a prolonged shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security as Democrats dig in on demands to restrain President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda that Republicans say are nonstarters.

Congress and its leaders, both Republicans and Democrats, keep kicking the can down the road. Their inaction plays into Trump’s hands.

Senate Democrats say they are unwilling to fund the Department of Homeland Security without major reforms, raising the likelihood of a partial government shutdown at the end of this week.

Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) and Thomas Suozzi (D-N.Y.) sent a Tuesday letter to President Trump requesting a meeting to address the public’s growing “rejection” of immigration enforcement efforts taking place across the country.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The shooting deaths of two American citizens during the Trump administration’s deportation operations in Minneapolis have upended the politics of immigration in Congress, plunging the country toward another government shutdown.

Democrats are threatening to block funding for the Homeland Security Department when it expires in two weeks unless there are “dramatic changes” and “real accountability” for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other law enforcement agencies who are carrying out President Donald Trump’s campaign of federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota and across the country.

Donald Trump did not invent the machinery now driving mass detention and unchecked arrests. That is why the crisis unfolding today will not automatically end when Trump leaves office.