{"id":23577,"date":"2026-06-03T17:02:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-plans-first-vote-on-immigration-bill\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T17:02:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:02:31","slug":"senate-plans-first-vote-on-immigration-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-plans-first-vote-on-immigration-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate plans first vote on immigration bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Senate Republicans released updated text for their immigration enforcement bill Wednesday, officially dropping funding related to President Donald Trump&#8217;s ballroom project.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans unveiled the legislative language shortly before they scheduled a first procedural vote to take up the measure around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>But GOP leaders are still facing pushback over the the Justice Department&#8217;s &#8220;Anti-Weaponization Fund,&#8221; with several GOP senators saying they would support amendments to nix it despite acting Attorney General Todd Blanche&#8217;s assurances Tuesday that the administration would no longer pursue the effort.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans released updated text for their immigration enforcement bill Wednesday, officially dropping funding related to President Donald Trump&#8217;s ballroom project. Republicans unveiled the legislative language shortly before they scheduled a first procedural vote to take up the measure around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday. But GOP leaders are still facing pushback over the the Justice Department&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}