Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Tamara Keith. I cover politics.

I'm Eric McDaniel. I cover Congress. And I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent.

And a happy Friday to us all. Let's start the roundup of this week's news on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers were set to vote on a budget package. But Eric,

that didn't happen. And now they've all gone home. What went on? Yeah. I mean, they took a week off,

basically. They're going home and they're going to raise money and they're going to talk to

constituents and Holt Town Halls and all that stuff. But essentially, President Trump had set a June 1st

deadline for this budget bill. It's

immigration enforcement funding, and it's supposed to be for three years so that this doesn't get

turned into a political football like we saw earlier this year. And the Senate had until June 1st,

but since they're off next week, they needed to do it this week, and they just didn't.

I mean, they were mad about two things, one of which was the president is asking for

a billion dollars in secret service funding to secure his ballroom project.

But that's proved a tough ask because the president has long said that what was supposed

to be just a $400 million project

would be funded entirely through private donations. The bigger one was a $1.776 billion

anti-weaponization fund out of the Department of Justice that the president said was going to be

used to pay reparations to people who had been somehow

targeted unjustly by the government for persecution.

The thing with the anti-weaponization fund is, sure, there are some Republican lawmakers who

support this. It even could be, in a hypothetical world, the majority of them. But when

majorities are so small in both the House and

the Senate, you only need one, two, maybe three people opposing something to make it a non-starter.

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