Senate will not pass $70bn homeland security bill that includes $1bn for security measures for controversial project – key US politics stories from Thursday, 21 May

A proposal to fund $1 billion in security additions for the White House campus and the president’s new ballroom is facing growing opposition from Republicans ahead of an expected…

Democratic senators plan to force a vote this week on U.S. President Donald Trump’s new $1.776 billion settlement fund to compensate political allies, testing Republican unity as…

Republicans wanted to include the ballroom funding in a larger $72 billion immigration enforcement package.

Senate Republican leaders are expected to abandon a proposal for $1 billion in security money for the White House complex and President Donald Trump’s ballroom after it has failed…

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Republican senators have queried the timing and lack of detail in secret service bid to add money to the Department for Homeland security bill

The Trump administration’s push for a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund derailed Senate Republicans’ plans to pass the president’s priority immigration enforcement package…

ICE funding bid derailed amid Republican backlash to attempt to latch ballroom funding on to immigration bill

Senate Republicans have dropped plans to vote on a bill funding ICE and Border Patrol.

A $72 billion reconciliation bill that would have dramatically boosted funding for ICE and CBP stalled Thursday in the Senate, and it left for recess.

A $72 billion reconciliation bill that would have dramatically boosted funding for ICE and CBP stalled Thursday in the Senate, and it left for recess.

US Senate Republicans have furious internal disagreements over a proposed compensation fund for Trump allies who claim they have been unfairly targeted by federal agencies.

The Senate delayed a vote on immigration enforcement funds in a rare show of dissent ahead of its Memorial Day recess.

Senate will not pass $70bn homeland security bill that includes $1bn for security measures for controversial project – key US politics stories from Thursday, 21 May

The Senate had planned to vote on a bill to fund ICE and the Border Patrol through the end of Trump’s term but scuttled it after the president sought to add $1.8 billion for the…