Barbara Sprunt

The immigration bill appeared to be on a glide path this week, but the White House's announcement of an anti-weaponization fund derailed that.

The fund is aimed at giving money to people who allege they've been wronged by the government and could include funding for the people who broke into the Capitol and attacked law enforcement on January 6th.

Enough Senate Republicans were alarmed over the plan and want to address it before passing immigration funding.

It's another sign of growing tension between Republicans in Congress and the White House.

and comes on the heels of President Trump working to oust Republican incumbents.

Barbara Sprint, NPR News, Washington.

It's hard to understand exactly what the consequence of this indictment could be unless you look to Venezuela and the predicate for a U.S.

military action in early January where there was an indictment of Nicolás Maduro that the U.S.

government used as its justification for engaging in that military action.

After a late-night, early-morning voterama, the Senate adopted a budget resolution that enables Republicans to use reconciliation to fund ICE and Border Patrol for the next three and a half years.

Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Rand Paul of Kentucky joined all Democrats in voting against it.

Now the measure heads to the House, where there's already efforts to broaden the scope beyond just immigration enforcement.

The budget tool of reconciliation was used to pass President Trump's signature legislation, the One Big Beautiful Bill.

It's a complicated and lengthy process that enables a party to pass a measure along party lines with no filibuster threat.

Barbara Sprint, NPR News, Washington.

For months, congressional Democrats have said they will not fund immigration enforcement agencies unless reforms are implemented, following the deaths of two U.S.

citizens at the hands of agents at protests earlier this year.

Republicans are looking to a budget tool called reconciliation to fund DHS along party lines, bypassing the need for Democratic support.

The budget resolution has an expected final price tag of about $70 billion, which should fund the agencies through President Trump's term.

The president has given a deadline of June 1st for the bill's passage.