Both the House and Senate are in recess this week, with no votes scheduled in either chamber until lawmakers return on May 11. In the final stretch before recess last week, Congress closed out the longest Department of Homeland Security shutdown on record, passed a short-term extension of a key surveillance authority, and adopted a budget framework that sets up the next major reconciliation bill.

After 76 days, the partial DHS shutdown is finally over. The bill funds most of the Department of Homeland Security through September 30, including the Transportation Security Administration, Coast Guard, FEMA, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. It does not, however, include funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement or portions of Border Patrol.

To fund ICE and CBP, the House on Wednesday adopted S. Con. Res. 33, completing the FY2026 budget resolution and clearing the way for a second, filibuster-proof reconciliation package. The blueprint instructs the House Homeland Security and Judiciary Committees, along with their Senate counterparts, to draft legislation that would increase the deficit by no more than $70 billion over the FY2026–2035 window, with committee recommendations due by May 15 and a White House-imposed June 1 deadline for the full package.

Separately, just hours before the program was set to expire, Congress cleared a 45-day extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, pushing the reauthorization deadline into mid-June. The House had initially passed its own three-year reauthorization, including new privacy provisions and language prohibiting the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) declared the bill "dead on arrival," and the Senate countered by passing the short-term extension by unanimous consent.

There are no committee hearings of interest this week.