Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman.
Congress has ended the longest government shutdown in U.S. History.
Lawmakers passed a budget for the Department of Homeland Security.
NPR's Claudia Grisales reports lawmakers still face a tough to-do list when they return from a week-long recess.
The funding plan stalled in the Senate and then the House,
finally gaining passage more than 75 days into the DHS shutdown.
Here's House Speaker Mike Johnson.
You had requests and demands on opposite sides of the conference that were literally irreconcilable.
If you meet one group's demands, you can't meet the other.
And so it takes a lot of time to get people to a consensus and an agreement on that.
After a week-long recess, Republicans say they 'll work on a partisan bill to direct a new wave of money
to immigration enforcement divisions that were left out of the new DHS plan.
They 'll also face a June deadline to reauthorize a critical but controversial tool known as Section 702
of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Claudia DiSales, NBR News.
Gas prices soared this week.
The motoring club AAA says the average national cost of a gallon of regular gas jumped nine cents overnight.
It's almost $4.40.
That's up more than 30 cents in a week.
Rising energy prices mean higher costs.