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华盛顿讯——在司法部新设的“反武器化”基金遭到共和党议员强烈反对后，众议院和参议院都将在阵亡将士纪念日休会期间离开华盛顿，不会就为联邦移民机构提供资金的和解法案进行投票。
参议院原定于周四审议这项720亿美元和解法案的修订版，众议院则计划在周五跟进。但在共和党参议员与代理司法部长托德·布兰奇举行会谈后，相关计划泡汤。布兰奇此前被派往国会山，试图说服持怀疑态度的议员支持司法部基金。
这笔17.76亿美元的基金是特朗普总统起诉国税局一案和解协议的一部分，而国税局由他本人掌控。支持特朗普的盟友，包括那些因参与1月6日国会山袭击事件而被起诉的人，已表示急于提交索赔申请。
民主党批评这项安排公然腐败，对于资金分配方式以及受款人没有任何有意义的国会监督。多名共和党参议员也表示他们存在顾虑，并将努力在和解法案中为资金使用设置限制条款。民主党誓言将提出针对该基金的修正案。
布兰奇与参议员们举行了近两小时的会谈。多名参会者会后未发表评论，这表明他们的担忧未得到充分解决。缅因州共和党参议员苏珊·柯林斯是参议院拨款委员会最高级别成员，此前曾明确反对司法部基金，她告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，会谈后她对该基金并未感到更放心。
司法部发言人在一份声明中表示，此次会谈包含“关于该和解协议的有益讨论”。
“布兰奇明确表示，周一宣布的反武器化基金与和解法案毫无关系，事实上，总统在和解法案中寻求的资金一分钱都不会用于与该基金相关的任何用途，”该发言人说道，“我们将继续与参议院合作，推动关键的和解资金获得批准。”
会谈结束后不久，共和党参议员表示，参议院将在周四会议结束后休会，不会审议和解法案。据一位知情人士透露，众议院领导层迅速取消了周四投票后留在华盛顿的计划，议长迈克·约翰逊与总统的会面也被取消。
这一发展意味着，议员们几乎肯定无法赶上特朗普设定的最后期限：在6月1日前将和解法案提交至他的办公桌。这项法案将为移民海关执法局和边境巡逻队提供三年资金，其缘起于今年早些时候国土安全部的停摆。民主党反对为这些机构提供资金，促使共和党通过和解程序推动该法案，而和解程序在参议院不需要民主党议员的投票支持。
本周早些时候，该法案就因包含1亿美元特勤局安保资金而遭遇阻碍，其中包括为总统改造东翼的计划，该计划要求建造一个大型宴会厅。参议院议事规则官员裁定，将该资金纳入法案违反了参议院关于和解法案可包含内容的规则，持怀疑态度的共和党议员曾预计该资金将在修订版法案中被删除。但新的修订版法案尚未公布。
参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩表示，参议员们6月1日休会返回后，将“从我们中断的地方继续推进”。当被问及能否达成解决方案时，他回答说：“我正是指望如此。”
图恩称该法案“本应是范围非常狭窄、目标明确、聚焦清晰、简洁直接的，但本周情况变得稍微复杂了一些”。当被问及是否对司法部新基金打乱资金计划感到沮丧时，图恩表示：“这让一切都变得比本该有的情况艰难得多。”
一位获得匿名许可以便畅所欲言的资深共和党参议员助手将僵局归咎于本届政府。
“政府制造了这个问题，需要由他们来解决。司法部本没必要在当时结案，也就没必要宣布这项和解协议，”该助手说道，“议员们理所当然地提出了疑问，而司法部迄今未能给出答复。参议员们仍专注于为移民海关执法局和边境巡逻队提供资金这一核心职能。”
参议院的僵局发生之际，总统正瞄准在任共和党参议员。周二，他在得克萨斯州共和党参议员初选中支持肯·帕克斯顿，取代现任参议员约翰·康林。周六，在总统支持其共和党挑战者后，共和党参议员比尔·卡西迪在连任 runoff选举中未能晋级。
当被问及这一动态是否在周四取消的计划中发挥了作用时，图恩表示，“很难将这里发生的任何事情与我们周围的政治氛围割裂开来”。
这位多数党领袖表示，如果白宫就司法部基金咨询参议院共和党人“本会更好”，但他称此事“已是过去式”。
“我们只能顺势而为，届时再做打算，”他说道，“但显然，这条路比我们此前预期的更加复杂和坎坷。”
司法部基金和宴会厅资金也在众议院遭到反对。
周三，宾夕法尼亚州共和党众议员布莱恩·菲茨帕特里克在致布兰奇的信中表达了对反武器化基金的“紧急担忧”，称其“代表着我们机构透明度和对美国纳税人承诺的危险倒退”。
菲茨帕特里克还表示，他不会支持为宴会厅提供资金。
一些众议院共和党议员已经公开支持将投票推迟到阵亡将士纪念日休会后进行。
“如果他们拖拖拉拉，我们没有理由必须在阵亡将士纪念日假期前完成投票。我们可以回来后再处理，”众议院保守派团体“自由核心小组”主席、马里兰州共和党众议员安迪·哈里斯周四下午离开约翰逊办公室时对记者表示。
“除了总统抛出的6月1日最后期限外，没有任何紧急理由必须在此之前推进该法案，”哈里斯说道。
艾伦·何与贾拉·布朗为本报道撰稿。
Congress delays votes on reconciliation bill amid GOP opposition to new DOJ fund
Updated on: May 21, 2026 / 3:04 PM EDT / CBS News
Washington — The House and Senate will both leave Washington for their Memorial Day recess without voting on a reconciliation package to fund federal immigration agencies, after the Justice Department’s new “anti-weaponization” fund earned strong pushback from Republican members.
The Senate had been prepared to take up a revised version of the $72 billion reconciliation bill on Thursday, with the House set to do the same on Friday. But the plans fell apart after a meeting between GOP senators and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who had been dispatched to the Hill to convince skeptical members about the DOJ fund.
The $1.776 billion fund was established as part of a settlement of a suit by President Trump against the IRS, which he controls. Pro-Trump allies, including those charged for their involvement in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, have said they are eager to submit claims.
Democrats have criticized the arrangement as blatantly corrupt, with no meaningful congressional oversight of how the funds would be distributed or who would receive payouts. Several GOP senators also indicated they had reservations and would work to place guardrails around the use of the money in the reconciliation package. Democrats vowed to bring amendments targeting the fund.
Blanche met with senators for nearly two hours. Several emerged from the meeting without commenting, a signal that their concerns had not been adequately addressed. GOP Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, the top appropriator in the Senate who has expressed opposition to the DOJ fund, told CBS News that she did not feel better about the fund after the meeting.
In a statement, a Justice Department spokesperson said the meeting included “a healthy discussion on the settlement.”
“[Blanche] made clear that the Anti-Weaponization Fund announced Monday has nothing to do with reconciliation, indeed not a single dime from the money the President is seeking in reconciliation would go toward anything having to do with the Fund,” the spokesperson said. “We will continue to work with the Senate to get critical reconciliation funds approved.”
Soon after the meeting concluded, GOP senators said the Senate would adjourn after Thursday’s session without taking up the reconciliation package. House leaders quickly canceled their plans to remain in town after Thursday’s votes, and a meeting between Speaker Mike Johnson and the president was called off, according to a source familiar with the matter.
The developments mean lawmakers will all but certainly miss a deadline imposed by Mr. Trump to get the reconciliation bill on his desk by June 1. The legislation, which would fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol for three years, originated from the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security earlier this year. Democratic opposition to funding the agencies prompted Republicans to pursue the bill via reconciliation, which doesn’t require Democratic votes in the Senate.
The plan had already hit a snag earlier in the week over the inclusion of $1 billion for Secret Service security funding, including for the president’s overhaul of the East Wing, which calls for the construction of a massive ballroom. The Senate’s parliamentarian ruled that including that funding violates the chamber’s rules for what can be in a reconciliation bill, and skeptical Republicans had been expecting the funding to be stripped in a revised version of the legislation. That new version has not yet been released.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said the chamber “will pick up where we left off” when senators return from recess on June 1. Asked whether a resolution can be reached, he replied, “That’s what I’m counting on.”
Thune said the package was “something that was supposed to be very narrow, targeted, focused, clean, straightforward, and it got a little bit more complicated this week.” Asked whether he was frustrated that the funding plan was derailed by the new DOJ fund, Thune said “it makes everything way harder than it should be.”
One senior GOP Senate aide, who was granted anonymity to speak freely, laid the blame for the impasse at the administration’s door.
“The administration created this problem, and it’s up to them to fix it. The DOJ didn’t need to settle the case when they did, which means they didn’t need to announce this settlement,” the aide said. “Members rightly have questions that so far the DOJ has failed to answer. Senators are still focused on the core functions of funding ICE and Border Patrol.”
The breakdown in the Senate came against the backdrop of the president taking aim at sitting GOP senators. On Tuesday, he endorsed Ken Paxton in Texas’ GOP Senate primary, choosing him over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn. On Saturday, GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy failed to advance in a runoff for his seat after the president endorsed his Republican challenger.
Asked whether that dynamic played a role in Thursday’s scrapped plans, Thune said that “it’s hard to divorce anything that happens here from what’s happening in the political atmosphere around us.”
The majority leader said “it would have been nice” if the White House consulted Senate Republicans on the DOJ fund, but he called it “water under the bridge now.”
“You play the hand you’re dealt, and we’ll sort it out from here,” he said. “But, you know, obviously it became a more complicated and bumpy path than we had hoped for.”
The DOJ fund and ballroom money also ran into pushback in the House.
In a letter to Blanche on Wednesday, GOP Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania expressed “urgent concern” about the anti-weaponization fund, saying it “represents a dangerous backsliding in the transparency of our institutions and our commitment to the American taxpayer.”
Fitzpatrick has also said he will not support funding for the ballroom.
Some House Republicans were already open to pushing a vote past the Memorial Day recess.
“If they drag their feet, there’s no reason we have to do it before the Memorial Day break. We can do it when we come back,” GOP Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland, the chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, told reporters as he left Johnson’s office Thursday afternoon.
“There’s no emergency about moving it by June 1, except the president has thrown it out there,” Harris said.
Alan He and Jaala Brown contributed to this report.