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The speaker said it’s “a terrible idea’ to limit funding for the immigration enforcement agency. Speaker Mike Johnson is worried Democratic demands for placing limits on immigration enforcement funding in the wake of the deadly shooting this week in Minnesota will disrupt larger government funding negotiations. The Louisiana Republican told reporters Friday it’s “a terrible idea” to curtail funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as some Democrats have demanded, after an ICE agent fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis. “We should not be limiting funding for Homeland Security at a dangerous time,” Johnson said. “We need officials to allow law enforcement to do their job. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is a critically important function of the government. It is a top concern for Americans, as demonstrated by the last election cycle.” Congress has until Jan. 30 to avoid a partial shutdown, with more than 75 percent of government programs still needing to be funded. Johnson said he thinks Congress can still prevent a shutdown by that time. Appropriators are scrambling to finalize the DHS spending measure as soon as this weekend to ride in a package alongside the State-Foreign Operations and Financial Services funding measures. Leaders are hoping to release bill text Sunday evening, according to three people granted anonymity to share internal plans. The Homeland funding bill was already one of the most contentious spending fights this cycle. But Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, the top Democrat overseeing DHS appropriations in the Senate, is insisting that the measure crack down on the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies. “Democrats cannot vote for a DHS budget that doesn’t restrain the growing lawlessness of this agency,” Murphy posted on social media following the shooting. Some Democrats want to bar ICE agents from wearing masks and carrying out law enforcement efforts without uniforms that identify their agency. “We feel that this is a practice that not only is troubling, but that it will also contribute to a growing distrust between law enforcement in general and at our population,” Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.), a member of the House Appropriations Committee, said at a news conference Friday. But Espaillat also said problems with ICE run far deeper. “I was of the belief that perhaps we could reform ICE. Now I am of the belief that it has to be dismantled as an entity,” he said. “This unaccounted for violence is part of its culture. And so we must dismantle it and build it from the ground up again.”