The DHS crisis is squeezing Susan Collins

Susan Collins is stuck in the middle of an ICE storm.

The Maine Republican and Senate Appropriations Committee chair is working overtime to salvage a package of six funding bills hanging by a thread after the Saturday killing of a Minnesota man by federal agents. The scramble follows months of work to put the appropriations process back on track in the wake of a record government shutdown.

How Collins navigates the fight will have reverberations far beyond whether or not Congress...