Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham told reporters on Wednesday that he expects to begin marking up a budget resolution that will also direct committees to find offsets for the new spending with hopes of Senate action in coming weeks.

Senate Budget chair Graham wants to plow forward on a funding package that bundles border security and defense spending as the House continues to struggle with its plan.

Democrats in the Senate Judiciary Committee sited Kash Patel pleading the fifth, and his loyalty to President Trump, as a reason to delay the vote.

Senate Democrats successfully delayed a scheduled committee vote to confirm Kash Patel, President Donald Trump's pick to head the FBI.

The Senate Judiciary Committee made a surprise announcement Thursday that its vote to advance Kash Patel's FBI nomination has been held over.