A deadly shooting in Minneapolis at the hands of a federal immigration officer comes weeks after a bombshell report on President Donald Trump's desperate drive to rush 10,000 deportation officers onto the payroll by the end of 2025.

The explosive Daily Mail report found that the administration's $50,000 signing bonus attracted droves of unqualified recruits — high school grads who can "barely read or write," overweight candidates with doctor's notes saying they're unfit, and even applicants with pending criminal charges.

The report exposed how Immigration and Customs Enforcement took a blowtorch to hiring standards, with one Department of Homeland Security official blasting: "We have people failing open-book tests and we have folks that can barely read or write English."

Officials sent recruits to a Georgia training center before drug test results came back, later discovering some tested positive.

At the academy, some recruits showed up with tattoos tied to gangs and white supremacists. One bailed for a court date on a gun charge, and another was arrested for exploding at a bus driver. To boot, sex harassment accusations emerged, with a source describing to the Daily Mail predatory behavior during training.

The report poured cold water on ICE claims that over 85 percent were experienced officers already trained.

"'Even those who identify as former law enforcement, they're not being properly vetted and require basic training," one official said.

Background checks don't happen until after people start work, one official said, as HR rubber-stamps applicants in days. Training was slashed from 16 weeks to six, with sit-ups eliminated because recruits couldn't handle them.

By December, 584 recruits had washed out, while 558 graduated and 620 remained in training. One HR chief suffered a stress-related fainting episode.

"This isn't the department of baking cookies," one source said. "This is the Department of Homeland Security, where you can be deported from the country.

"And we're now employing people who are not equipped to tie their own shoelaces.

"This whole thing is a complete disaster from beginning to end."

A Minneapolis witness is directly contradicting the Trump administration’s account of a deadly ICE shooting, describing a chaotic scene in which agents appeared panicked, untrained, and more focused on shielding their colleague than saving a woman’s life. Speaking to CNN, the witness said Renee Nicole Good never posed a lethal threat, that the officer who fired appeared “spooked,” and that agents blocked on-scene medical help while rushing the shooter away. Video and eyewitness testimony undermine Donald Trump officials' claims that Good “weaponized” her car or seriously injured an officer, raising fresh questions about the raid, the use of force, and the official narrative pushed from the White House and DHS.

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House Democrats scored a victory on Thursday evening as the chamber passed a revival of enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies on a bipartisan basis — though negotiations on a deal continue in the Senate.

The vote came about as a result of a discharge petition from Democrats, that received crossover support from the GOP.

According to NBC News, "The vote was 230-196, with 17 Republicans joining a unanimous Democratic caucus to pass the legislation. Most of the breakaway GOP lawmakers represent swing districts and are wary of health care becoming a political vulnerability in the 2026 midterms. The bill would resurrect Affordable Care Act premium tax credits for about 22 million Americans after Republicans rejected bills last year to extend the money past the Dec. 31 deadline."

Extension of the ACA subsidies was a huge issue in the final months of last year, with a government shutdown stretching weeks as Democrats protested the expiration.

While the ACA continues to have some premium subsidies, the enhanced subsidies, passed during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, make plans affordable for millions more people, with premiums set to spike for millions, possibly doubling or tripling for some people, unless they are extended.

The Senate is highly unlikely to take up the House-passed bill, as they already voted on an identical measure at the end of last year and fell short of the votes needed to overcome a filibuster. Bipartisan talks are ongoing in the Senate to cut a separate deal on the issue.