Lawmakers face a final sprint this week before a mini spring break recess — that is, if leadership lets them leave.
With new urgency to fund the Department of Homeland Security, the focus will be on off-the-floor negotiations to end the partial government shutdown.
And President Donald Trump is further complicating a deal to reopen DHS by tying it to the GOP’s sweeping voter ID bill, legislation the Senate stayed in session to debate over the weekend and that could take up a majority of floor time again this week.
