The House took a major step in passing a Senate bipartisan bill to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Thursday, but the tougher fight over funding for Immigration and

Congress returns to Capitol Hill this week facing a mountain of government funding work — all amid a record-long shutdown and plenty of uncertainty about the path ahead. First, House and Senate Republicans will try to get on the same page about the party-line tax and spending bills they plan to pass by June 1 to fund immigration agencies and potentially other partisan priorities.

In the wee hours of Thursday morning, the Senate adopted a budget framework to provide funds for immigration enforcement that Democrats have denied since February.

The Senate is expected to vote as early as this week on a budget blueprint for a second reconciliation bill that includes funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol. But Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.

Reconciliation is a procedural maneuver through which the Senate can advance budget-related legislation with a simple majority and thereby bypass the filibuster threshold.

House and Senate appropriators backed the White House’s shipbuilding goals with an additional $6.5 billion in funding for fiscal year 2026—including adjustments to fix accounting errors resulting from last year's budget reconciliation. The compromise ...

House Republicans should pass a budget package that indexes capital gains to inflation, which would help small businesses and ordinary Americans preserve their assets while turbocharging the economy.