Overview
- Following Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting, in which prosecutors identified 31-year-old Cole Allen as the suspect, Republicans escalated calls to restore Secret Service funding.
- Senators have twice unanimously passed a bill to fund most of Homeland Security except Immigration and Customs Enforcement and parts of Customs and Border Protection, but Speaker Mike Johnson said the House will modify that bill over language that zeros out ICE and Border Patrol.
- Any House rewrite would require the Senate to vote again, a step Democrats could block, in what Senate Majority Leader John Thune still describes as a two-track plan to fund ICE and the Border Patrol separately.
- House Republicans expect to vote Wednesday on a budget resolution that starts the reconciliation process, a fast-track tool that lets the Senate pass ICE and Border Patrol funding with a simple majority.
- Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin warns emergency money will run out in early May, which could halt pay for TSA screeners and Secret Service agents and revive airport delays seen earlier in the shutdown.