Both chambers are in recess this week for the Memorial Day holiday which began a little early for Congress last Thursday. Representatives quickly left town after votes on the second reconciliation bill were abruptly cancelled.

The second reconciliation bill is a narrowly focused, roughly $72 billion package designed to fund immigration enforcement at ICE and CBP for more than three years, extending past President Trump's term. It emerged as the second half of a two-track deal to end the longest partial DHS shutdown in U.S. history: most of DHS was funded through regular appropriations (excluding ICE and CBP), while immigration enforcement is being funded separately through a reconciliation bill that can clear the Senate with a simple majority.

Votes were abruptly canceled last Thursday after Senate Republicans could not agree on legislative text, with the last-minute inclusion of a new Justice Department "anti-weaponization" fund emerging as the sticking point. Leadership will need nearly every Republican to pass the bill, but the new fund — which would add an additional $1.8 billion — has further muddied the waters. Democrats have vowed to force Republicans to take politically difficult votes on the provision through the "vote-a-rama" process of unlimited amendment votes, and some Republicans have voiced criticism of their own. The vote will now have to wait until June.

There are no committee hearings scheduled for the week.