GOP pressure builds as White House anti-weaponization fund stalls immigration push

Senate Republicans, led by Majority Leader John Thune, want the White House to drop the $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund that has stalled a $70 billion immigration-enforcement package; a federal judge’s pause blocks DOJ actions on the fund, while Democrats plan to force vulnerable Republicans to vote on it, highlighting GOP-WH tensions as lawsuits challenge the policy and aides debate guardrails or scrapping the fund.