This week on The Hill: Immigration funding takes center stage as June 1 deadline looms

Both chambers are rushing to finalize a package that would fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol before lawmakers leave for a scheduled recess at the end of the week.

Republicans are pushing the package through a special partisan process known as reconciliation, which would allow them to bypass the Senate filibuster. 

Senate Republicans are still working through the details of the bill, however, after Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled last week that several elements of the package failed to comply with the Byrd Rule. The rule prohibits provisions that make significant policy changes with only tangential impacts on the budget from being allowed to pass with simple-majority votes.

Democrats celebrated the parliamentarian’s rulings as a win. But Ryan Wrasse, a spokesperson for Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), said that the rulings were “technical fixes that were not unexpected.”

“We look forward to continued productive work with the parts to fully fund Border Patrol and immigration enforcement,” he posted on the social platform X.

One key point of contention among lawmakers is a provision in the package setting aside $1 billion in security funds for the new White House ballroom and other Secret Service priorities. Several Republicans in the House and Senate have railed against the proposal, arguing that it sends the wrong message to voters at a time when grocery prices, gas costs and inflation are sky-high.

The Senate parliamentarian ruled that Republicans would need to rework the ballroom security provision if they still want to include it in the reconciliation package.

Meanwhile, House leaders canceled votes Monday and Tuesday to clear the runway for the package’s expected arrival in the lower chamber on Friday.

What else you can expect this week:

House to take up amended housing bill: The House will vote on an amended version of a Senate-crafted housing bill, dubbed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act.

FISA clock ticking: Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is no closer to a deal with hard-line conservatives on renewing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which allows the government to spy on foreigners abroad without a warrant. 

Senate continues work on crypto bill: Senate Republicans will work to muster up Democratic support for a landmark crypto bill, dubbed the Clarity Act.

Democrats continue war powers surge: Democrats in both chambers are continuing to push out resolutions to limit Trump’s military action in Iran.

Lawmakers race to meet reconciliation deadline

Before Thune can bring a reconciliation bill to the floor, he will need to rework some of the provisions in the package that have been ruled down by MacDonough.

MacDonough, for instance, ruled against a section of the bill that would allow funds to be used for the initial screenings of unaccompanied migrant children. She also ruled that the legislation, as drafted, inappropriately funded some activities outside the Senate Homeland Security Committee’s jurisdiction. 

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) declared the parliamentarian’s........

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