Senate Republicans peppered acting attorney general Todd Blanche with questions about the payout fund during a lunch meeting Thursday, according to two Senate GOP aides familiar with the meeting, including who would be eligible for the money and what guardrails would exist to prevent people convicted of attacking the Capitol on Jan.

In a blow to the White House, Senate Republicans will remove a $1 billion Secret Service funding request that would help President Donald Trump’s ballroom project from their immigration enforcement funding bill amid internal objections.

Senate Republicans abruptly left Washington on Thursday without voting on a roughly $70 billion bill to fund immigration enforcement agencies, frustrated with the White House and at an impasse over whether to try to block a new $1.

Chief congressional correspondent Chad Pergram breaks down trouble on Capitol Hill as GOP Senators dismiss until after an imposed deadline from President Donald Trump to fund ICE and CBP.

Republicans were already expected to abandon $1 billion in security money for the White House complex and President Trump's ballroom amid backlash from members of their own party.

GOP lawmakers could use an immigration enforcement bill to weigh in on Trump's proposed fund, which would pay people with money that Congress does not control.

Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, went to Capitol Hill to allay Republicans’ concerns over a fund to pay people who claim government mistreatment. It did not go well.

The Trump administration’s push for a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund has derailed the Senate GOP plans to pass a major immigration enforcement package, with senators leaving Washington for their Memorial Day recess.