Congressional leaders are closing up shop for the week without voting on their long-sought immigration budget bill, as Senate Republicans struggled to agree on legislative text amid an 11th-hour fight over a new Justice Department “anti-weaponization” fund.
While Republican leaders had hoped to push the bill through both chambers on strictly party-line votes before leaving Friday for the Memorial Day recess, that timetable evaporated amid a growing GOP backlash toward presidential funding priorities.
