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Senate Republicans are stuck in a jam of funding bills, Russia sanctions, and dozens of nominations as they push for a quick five-week recess, hoping a vote on the Trump-backed SAVE America Act can unlock the exit; but major obstacles remain, including intra-party wrangling, hemp language disputes, and the politics of a 60-vote threshold on the bill.
Capitol Hill braces for a high-stakes week as Senate Republicans push a party-line budget amid funding pressures and Senate reconciliation rules, with a Tuesday closed-door lunch seen as the last push to lock in votes. The day’s updates also cover the Cruz-Cantwell college-sports reform bill’s progress, Todd Blanche’s attorney general confirmation path, a House Ethics probe into Rep. Max Miller, and a potential Fauci contempt vote, all shaping the week before the recess.
House Speaker Mike Johnson and White House budget chief Russ Vought encouraged Republicans to back a party-line reconciliation package funding the Iran war and farm aid (about $95 billion), with a promise of a broader partisan policy bill after the midterms. Some conservatives remain skeptical as the party moves through a key budget resolution and rule votes that set up stopgap funding, a defense bill, and a stock‑trading ban for Congress. Democrats, aiming to block or constrain the stopgap, push for bipartisan budgeting and offsets. The article also notes Rep. Jamie Raskin seeking records on Jeffrey Epstein’s foreign contacts, signaling potential oversight moves next year, along with tributes and other Capitol developments.
Senate Republicans are warming to using a third reconciliation package to replenish the Pentagon’s depleted munitions stocks, contingent on House Speaker Johnson advancing a multi-step plan (rule, stopgap funding, and a budget resolution). The White House signals a fallback stopgap to avert a shutdown as Trump pressures for the budget step; however, support for reconciliation 3.0 remains nuanced, with some Republicans seeking offsets and others wary, while the Senate waits on House progress to determine how far to push the package.
House Republicans are maneuvering to advance a party-line Reconciliation 3.0 package, but internal opposition over offsets and policy fights — including the SAVE America Act, Real ID-backed voting grants, defense funding, and Planned Parenthood defunding — threaten to derail a July deadline and reveal stubborn intra‑party splits despite Johnson’s optimism.
House Republicans are negotiating to move three priority items—the three-year extension of the Section 702 spy law, the farm bill with pesticide labeling provisions, and a budget resolution—toward floor votes, but internal hard-liner opposition and ongoing negotiations threaten to delay action even as King Charles III visits the Capitol.
House Republicans remain frozen as leaders struggle to move votes on a three‑part agenda—reauthorizing Section 702 FISA, the farm bill with pesticide and ethanol amendments, and a budget resolution—amid internal opposition from hard‑liners and at least 10 Republicans; King Charles III’s visit adds scheduling pressure, and leadership is negotiating to secure floor votes while contending with revolts over central‑bank digital currency bans and other policy provisions.
The Senate kicks off a late-night vote-a-rama to advance a budget blueprint that would pave the way for a GOP package funding Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol via a party-line reconciliation process, with Democrats promising numerous amendments to spotlight cost-cutting and policy contrasts. The sprawling digest of action that follows covers related Capitol Hill maneuvering—from FISA extensions and gun-sight on environmental legislation to Virginia redistricting fallout, vaccine policy questions, and other high-profile political developments—reflecting a day of intense strategic positioning ahead of DHS funding deadlines and broader partisan battles.
Senate Budget Chair Lindsey Graham unveiled a GOP budget blueprint to fund immigration enforcement (ICE, Border Patrol), kicking off a reconciliation-based process with a roughly $70 billion cap per committee and a May 15 drafting deadline, aiming to have a final bill ready for a June 1 White House deadline; the House is set to act next week as Republicans push a party-line measure, while Democrats plan amendments, and related Capitol actions include discussions on a bipartisan path for FISA extension and other budget negotiations.