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Congress barrels toward deadline pile-up as GOP divisions threaten Trump agenda

Congress returns facing looming deadlines, unfinished business and internal Republican divisions as the midterm elections draw closer.Lawmakers left Washington ahead of Memorial Day on the cusp of passing a massive immigration enforcement funding package. Doing so would have allowed Republicans to tackle other outstanding priorities.Instead, the budget reconciliation process — which Republicans planned to use to funnel roughly $72 billion to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol — stalled after a surprise move by the Trump administration exposed deep divisions within the...