On Monday afternoon, Susan Collins went to the Senate floor to address an empty chamber. Most of her colleagues were out of Washington due to a snow delay, but Collins was determined to maintain her streak of never missing a Senate vote—and to salvage the government funding bills, now suddenly in jeopardy over the administration’s deadly immigration crackdown in Minnesota. Democrats were demanding reforms to ICE in exchange for their votes, and Collins declared that while she “shared the concerns” over the “tragic death of Alex Pretti,” she hoped they could “come together in a constructive way to get this done and ensure we do not lurch into a dangerous and detrimental government shutdown.”