Republicans stall votes on partisan ICE funding amid party infighting

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., spoke to reporters in the Capitol on May 19. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images North America Congress is set to leave town for a weeklong recess without passing a Republican-backed measure to fund immigration enforcement for the next four years amid dissent from within their own ranks over a federal fund to pay people who claim to have been politically persecuted. …