The GOP Agenda Gets Stuck on Trump's $1.776 Billion Settlement Fund
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
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🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:30.6 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. Congress comes back into session |
| 0:40.8 | with a bottled up legislative agenda, including a GOP bill to fund immigration enforcement, and |
| 0:47.1 | maybe to block President Trump's $1.776 billion settlement slush fund, not to mention pending reauthorization of Section 702 |
| 0:56.6 | surveillance authority, ambitions for a big transportation bill, and more. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson |
| 1:02.7 | with the Wall Street Journal. We're joined today by my colleagues on the WSJ's opinion pages, |
| 1:08.7 | columnist Kim Strassel, and editorial board member Kate O'Dell. |
| 1:12.8 | As the House and Senate come back to Washington this week, one of the first orders of business |
| 1:17.3 | is funding President Trump's immigration priorities. As a reminder, Congress in April ended |
| 1:23.6 | history's longest partial government shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, |
| 1:28.5 | but Democrats refused to vote for immigration funding, which was removed from that bill. |
| 1:34.0 | Republicans now intend to pass this through budget reconciliation process, which is exempt from |
| 1:39.2 | the 60-vote filibuster rule, but they've run into a couple of sticky wickets of their own. |
| 1:44.6 | Let's start with Fox News this weekend. Here is Speaker Mike Johnson, saying that he hopes to |
| 1:49.1 | have this immigration funding passed shortly. |
| 1:51.8 | They broke off ICE immigration enforcement and border security from the regular |
| 1:57.4 | appropriations process. No Democrat will vote for that, Kaylee. Think of it. And they don't want to give a dime to either of those critical agencies of our federal government. |
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