Today’s notice: Back to where we started in the Senate. One Democrat’s “immigration triage center.” Why senators needed bright yellow nametags in Greenland. And, trying to talk to Graham Platner.

The Latest

And we’re back! Now what? Senate Republicans will return to D.C. this week in the same place and facing the same problems they had when they left 11 days ago.

They are no closer to figuring out how to get the reconciliation bill, which includes billions of dollars for ICE and immigration enforcement, over the line thanks to opposition to Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund.

It’s possible that a Friday court order that temporarily halted the settlement fund gives some Republicans cover to move forward anyway, but that wouldn’t prevent Democrats from offering amendments to zero out the fund, which could succeed.

Sen. Susan Collins told NOTUS’ Igor Bobic at an event in Maine she didn’t know whether the bill could move forward. “I made very clear that that was something I could not support,” Collins said of the DOJ fund.

Collins is joined by a growing contingent of Republican senators who are furious with Trump for putting them in this spot to begin with. And they’re still pretty mad about his decision to back Texas AG Ken Paxton over Sen. John Cornyn. Cornyn spent some time last week vagueposting about fables of betrayal (a very subtle story about a frog who trusts a scorpion and gets stung) so BOLO for Cornyn going YOLO this week.

Democrats will spend a lot of time making sure Republicans have to talk about the fund. Sens. Adam Schiff, Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin — who each faced their own Trump-backed investigations — introduced a bill to shutter the fund. State legislators in California and New York are pushing forward with proposals to tax any fund payouts at 100 percent.

Open tabs: DHS Backs Off Its Demand for Green Card Applicants to Leave US (Bloomberg); Trump Urges Canceling Freedom 250 Concerts After Artists Drop Out (NYT); Trump requests edits to Iran deal his envoys negotiated (Axios)

From the Hill

Triaging immigration cases. Democrats can’t do much by way of legislation as the minority party, but Rep. Dan Goldman has been working to help immigrants in his New York district navigate the difficult legal landscape one case at a time. His office has created an “immigration triage center” that his team says has helped secure the release of 36 people who were detained at a federal courthouse, NOTUS’ Manuela Silva reports.

From the White House

Cuba conundrum. The Trump administration has teed up a military operation in the island nation for whenever Trump says “go,” but the White House still has a sales pitch to make in order to build domestic public support. It is a step the administration didn’t take ahead of February strikes against Tehran. And now, polling shows there’s very little support for the war in Iran, and Democrats are moving forward with several war powers votes to prevent Trump from attacking Cuba. It’s not just Democrats: Some Republican Trump skeptics warn there’s little appetite for a new conflict.

“I would be worried about overextending, and I think it’s not the right time,” Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon told NOTUS’ Hamed Ahmadi. “Let’s focus on Iran, finish what we’re doing in Venezuela. I think it sends a bad message.”

From Greenland

Well, that’s bleak. An all-female Senate delegation to the Arctic made a stop at a U.S. base in Greenland over the weekend. Unsurprisingly, Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski looked far more comfortable than her colleagues as they posed for a photo and held up yellow name tags. The U.S. Space Force, which operates the base, gave the group of eight senators the bright canary ID badges so they could be easily identified if they wound up dead in the snow, Igor was told.

New on NOTUS

HUD’s months-late report on homelessness has finally come out, and the Trump administration is touting a 3% drop in Americans experiencing homelessness nationwide, NOTUS’ Raymond Fernández reports. Housing Secretary Scott Turner said “the data is clear that the status quo of ‘housing first’ has failed to meaningfully reduce homelessness, resulting in crisis levels of people living on the streets.” Trump has pursued a more aggressive approach to the issue and threatened grant cuts to states that didn’t fall in line.

NOT US

• Trump Administration Sees Striking Exodus of Legal Talent, by Eileen Sullivan and Andrea Fuller for The New York Times
• Triumph of the underdogs: New Yorkers are reveling in the Knicks and Mamdani, by Adam Gabbatt for The Guardian
• Iran’s reopened underground missile sites show limits of US bombing plan, by Thomas Bordeaux and Tamara Qiblawi for CNN

WEEK AHEAD

Today

The Senate is back in session. The House is expected to return later this week.

Tuesday

Primary Election Day in California, New Mexico, South Dakota, Montana, Iowa and New Jersey.

Secretary of many hats Marco Rubio appears at a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations committee.

Acting AG Todd Blanche appears at a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee.

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin appears at a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee.

Jill Biden’s memoir hits bookstores.

Wednesday

Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks about the national debt at AEI in D.C.

Thursday

National Capital Planning Commission hearing on Trump’s planned D.C. arch project.

Netroots Nation kicks off in Philadelphia and runs through Saturday.

U.S. Conference of Mayors annual meeting kicks off in Long Beach, California, and runs through Sunday.

Friday

Joe Biden speaks at the South Dakota Democratic Party’s annual McGovern Day Dinner.

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