GOP funding bill now in jeopardy following Minneapolis shooting: analysis

Another government shutdown is looming, with a Friday deadline, and there is no agreement in sight.

After another shooting death at the hands of an ICE agent, lawmakers are pausing the funding bill that pays for such operations across the country. While the ICE bill has passed the House, Senators announced on Saturday that they aren't approving the funding without reining in the violence.

Punchbowl News co-founder John Bresnahan told CNN on Sunday that the trillion-dollar funding package cannot pass as it is right now.

"There's no way Democrats will vote for ICE funding. There's no way they'll vote for DHS funding. That's the umbrella agency that ICE falls under — the Department of Homeland Security. There's no way they can do that."

He noted that Republicans are already calling for an investigation after Saturday's shooting. Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.) is the new chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security and is one of those calling for a hearing and testimony from ICE and other top DHS officials.

Bresnahan said that Republicans might be "sticking with Trump right now," but that he thinks that "under the surface," the GOP is growing "nervous."

"I mean, there [have] been reports that Trump doesn't like the images coming out of Minnesota about these agents. You know, grabbing people, snatching people off the street, leaving, you know, using, allegedly using, little children as bait to try to get migrants to come into custody," said Bresnahan. "So, I mean, the images that are really tough for Republicans. And you see a couple of Republicans online already saying this."

Garbarino's comments, he said, are the most notable.

"Garbarino is very interesting. He's a chairman of a full committee that he just took over. He just took this over. Him calling for hearings here, I think, is pretty significant. So there is definitely unease there," said Bresnahan.

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