Overview
- The House is set to tackle three fraught votes next week — a FISA 702 extension that expires Thursday, the farm bill, and the Senate budget plan for ICE and Border Patrol — in what Republicans are calling hell week.
- The Senate approved the budget resolution on Thursday in a party-line vote, unlocking reconciliation, a process that lets a simple majority pass certain spending bills without a filibuster.
- Speaker Mike Johnson is pressing for a quick, clean House vote to begin drafting the ICE/CBP bill and to meet President Trump's June 1 target for immigration enforcement funding.
- Conservatives are balking at the narrow Senate plan and are pushing to add priorities such as the SAVE America Act or broader spending items, and Johnson can afford to lose only a few Republican votes.
- DHS warns it may run out of payroll funds in early May under the partial shutdown, adding urgency as coverage diverges on the package’s size, with most reports near $70 billion and some citing up to $140 billion.