Senate clears $70B immigration enforcement bill for Trump

Senate passes – The U.S. Senate approved a $70 billion package early Friday, funding ICE, CBP, and a discretionary Homeland Security reserve, after tense overnight negotiations tied to President Donald Trump’s disputed “anti-weaponization” fund threatened to derail the measur

Just before 5 a.m. on Friday, the U.S. Senate finished nearly 18 hours of voting—then voted the bill through anyway.

In a 52-to-47 roll call early Friday morning, senators passed a $70 billion package intended to fund President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement efforts after days of backlash over his “anti-weaponization” fund.

The bill’s money is divided in sharp, practical ways: $38.5 billion for ICE and more than $26 billion for CBP. Another $5 billion would be set aside for disposition at Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin’s discretion.

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski was the lone Republican to vote no. She said she had concerns about funding federal agencies for three years through the budget reconciliation process, describing it as a way of circumventing the regular appropriations process.

The vote now sends the measure to House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., who has already said he plans to pass it next week.

The “anti-weaponization” fund became the fight

Much of the overnight drama focused on Trump’s controversial $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund. Democrats and some Republicans tried—unsuccessfully—to add language that would have permanently blocked it from going forward.

Trump had set a June 1 deadline to pass the immigration enforcement bill. But the announcement of the “anti-weaponization” fund derailed that timeline and triggered widespread pushback. Earlier this week, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said he was scrapping the plan.

Still, the Senate found a path to approving the $70 billion package.

A Cassidy amendment collapsed as negotiations tightened

Senate Republicans also cleared a major hurdle when they voted down an amendment proposed by Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La. That amendment would have redirected payments from the settlement for Trump allies who claim they were politically persecuted to members of law enforcement injured during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

No Secret Service money carve-out for the White House project

Other proposed changes also failed.

Republicans scrapped language that would have set aside $1 billion in Secret Service funding, with part of that money potentially going toward Trump’s controversial White House ballroom project.

A Warner proposal also went nowhere

Senators rejected a proposal from Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., that would have stopped Bill Pulte from serving as acting director of national intelligence. Warner’s plan would have done so by prohibiting a Senate-confirmed leader of a federal agency or department from serving simultaneously in the DNI role.

Guardrails on enforcement were repeatedly resisted

Democrats and some Republicans also pushed for limits they said were needed to constrain how ICE and CBP operate.

Among the attempts that were rejected were efforts to require federal officers to clearly identify themselves, and efforts to require a warrant from a judge before officers can enter people’s homes without consent.

The measure now moves quickly. but the fights that shaped it are likely to echo as it heads to the House. For the Senate. the vote finished the work just before dawn—after the fiercest part of the bargaining had turned not only on immigration enforcement. but on what should be blocked. what should be funded. and how far the administration’s most controversial priorities will be allowed to run alongside a major enforcement package.

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