NPR News: 04-30-2026 6AM EDT

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. Last night the House narrowly passed a Republican budget blueprint. This would allow the GOP to pass funding for immigration enforcement programs with no Democratic votes. On this vote, the ayes are 215, the nays are 211 with one member voting present. The concurrent resolution is adopted. The GOP wants to reopen part of the Department of Homeland Security. The agency has been Democrats have blocked immigration funding over the federal agents killing of two protesters this year in Minneapolis. The House has also voted to temporarily extend a government spying power. This is part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, known as FISA. The matter is going to the Senate, but there is little time. The key part of the law expires tonight. Director James Comey was in federal court in Virginia yesterday. He was released with no conditions. Comey is charged with allegedly making a threat against President Trump in an online photograph. NPR's Ryan Lucas reports. The charges against Comey stem from a photo he posted on social media last year showing Seashells arranged to spell out eighty-six forty-seven, eighty-six being slang for remove, and forty-seven in apparent reference to Trump. Trump has publicly called for Comey to be prosecuted. The new indictment is in fact the second against Comey since Trump returned to office. The fi