As part of the president’s new settlement deal with the IRS, the administration is establishing a $1.776 “anti-weaponization” fund. But they’re doing so, somehow, without congressional approval. This sidestepping of the legislature has lawmakers on both sides of the aisle upset, and it could cost President Donald Trump whatever remains of his legislative agenda. The Senate was prepared, for example, to take up a revised version of the $72 billion reconciliation on Thursday to fund ICE and CBP. The House was set to do the same on Friday. But those plans fell through as Republicans balked, dropping the idea for now and leaving on their Memorial Day recess with the longer-term funding issue left unresolved.
Giving Congress the Runaround
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