Danny Lewis

And at airports across the U.S.

today, ICE agents deployed to help manage long airport security lines.

TSA officers are working without paychecks because of lapsed funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

That's meant more absences and resignations, leading to those long lines at some airports.

While DHS has been largely shut down since February 14th, ICE remains fully operational, thanks to funding approved under 2025's One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Reporter Cam McWherter in Atlanta said the airport was incredibly busy today.

And as for what happens next, the Journal has learned that President Trump has rejected one proposed plan to resume funding the Department of Homeland Security and those TSA agents.

The potential off-ramp would have funded all parts of the department except for the agency that enforces immigration law.

But Trump told Republican negotiators to hold firm until a spending bill is paired with legislation requiring proof of citizenship to vote.

He told reporters today that that bill, the Save America Act, is a priority.

A spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said such a call never happened.

Schumer said Trump was trying to sabotage negotiations, while Senate Majority Leader John Thune said linking the SAVE Act with DHS funding wasn't realistic politically.

Speaking of voting, the Supreme Court appears inclined to block states from counting mail-in ballots that are mailed by Election Day, but arrive a few days after.

During a two-hour hearing today, key conservative justices appeared sympathetic to arguments from the Trump administration and the Republican Party that all ballots must be in the hands of election officials by Election Day in order to count.

The high court's decision is expected by this summer.

Fourteen states have laws that allow a grace period for mailed ballots to arrive.

A broad ruling from the court could stop states from counting hundreds of thousands of late-arriving ballots.

Turning to Capitol Hill, a bipartisan Senate bill introduced today would ban sports betting on prediction markets.

It would apply to CalSheet and PolyMarket's U.S.

platform.