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Senators voted 52-47 to pass\u00a0the $70 billion legislation\u00a0to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol for the next three years, through the end of Trump\u2019s term, after Democrats\u00a0blocked the money for months. The bill will now head to the House, which is expected to take it up next week.<\/p>\n

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The final vote came just before 5 a.m., after Republicans narrowly defeated multiple attempts by members of both parties to add language to the bill that would permanently ban Trump\u2019s settlement fund for\u00a0allies who believe they\u2019ve been politically persecuted.<\/p>\n

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Republicans cleared the last major hurdle overnight when they defeated an amendment proposed by one of their own members, Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, that would have redirected payments from the settlement to members of law enforcement who were injured when\u00a0a mob of Trump supporters\u00a0seeking to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss attacked the Capitol on\u00a0Jan. 6, 2021.<\/p>\n

The amendments were a test of party unity that complicated what should have been an easy vote for Republicans who wanted to keep the focus on immigration enforcement in an election year. Instead, they spent almost a full day haggling among themselves over whether to block the settlement fund, even after acting Attorney General Todd Blanche had said earlier this week that\u00a0it would not go forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis would have been done several hours ago if we weren\u2019t having to deal with some of the issues around the fund,\u201d Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said shortly before midnight.<\/p>\n

Thune himself has criticized the fund, which was part of a settlement that resolves Trump\u2019s\u00a0lawsuit against the IRS\u00a0over the leak of his tax returns and has angered many of his GOP colleagues. But he has been pushing GOP senators for weeks to keep the bill focused on the funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol and to avoid adding new provisions that could complicate its passage in the House.<\/p>\n

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Still, a group of Republican senators pushed all day and into the night to block the fund\u2019s payouts through legislation. That effort came after Trump, who has been at odds with the Senate in recent weeks, raised new doubts about the fund\u2019s future on Wednesday when he told reporters that it is \u201cvery important\u201d and said \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d whether it is dead or on hold.<\/p>\n

The final 52-47 vote on the bill was nearly party line, with Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska the only Republican to oppose it. Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado missed the vote.<\/p>\n

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The first vote on Thursday morning, a Democratic effort to ban the settlement fund, was held open for several hours while Cassidy and two other Republican senators decided whether to support it. The Democratic motion was narrowly defeated when Cassidy eventually voted against it and the two other senators \u2014 Jon Husted of Ohio and Dan Sullivan of Alaska, both of whom are up for reelection this year \u2014 voted for it.<\/p>\n

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The Senate then rejected a second amendment from Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina that would also have banned the settlement fund but would have moved the money to a separate anti-fraud fund at the Department of Justice. Most Democrats voted against the amendment, guaranteeing its defeat, but more than 10 Republicans supported it.<\/p>\n

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Tillis said the fund is a political liability for the party.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Blanche says this is largely inoperative, why not use this moment to codify that?\u201d Tillis said. \u201cOtherwise, you\u2019re exposing every one of our members who are in cycle to having to deal with this between today and Election Day, and that makes no sense for something that the DOJ says they\u2019re not moving forward with.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cassidy\u2019s amendment to compensate the injured police officers was a pointed rebuke, as payouts from Trump\u2019s fund could have potentially gone to Trump supporters who\u00a0beat police\u00a0and\u00a0attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6. Cassidy\u00a0lost reelection\u00a0last month after Trump endorsed a primary opponent.<\/p>\n

He said that, despite Blanche\u2019s comments, the fund is still part of an active settlement and \u201cabsolutely can be used.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Senate rejected several other Democratic efforts to try to block or limit the fund, including amendments to ban payments to Jan. 6 defendants who injured law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Republicans are now \u201cleaving taxpayers to rely on nothing more than a promise from Donald Trump\u2019s personal fixer. That is not accountability. That is a permission slip.\u201d<\/p>\n

ICE and Border Patrol money has been delayed for months<\/h4>\n

Enactment of the bill to fund ICE and the Border Patrol would end the blockade by Democrats who\u00a0demanded policy changes\u00a0after the fatal shootings of two protesters by federal agents in January.<\/p>\n

Senate Republicans used a\u00a0complicated procedural maneuver\u00a0to get around the filibuster and pass the budget legislation with no Democratic votes. But it took weeks to get the bill to the Senate floor as Republicans navigated various obstacles to passage created by Trump and the White House \u2014 including\u00a0a $1 billion proposal\u00a0for White House security and\u00a0Trump\u2019s ballroom\u00a0that they eventually scrapped and the fierce bipartisan backlash to the settlement fund.<\/p>\n

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Democrats say any funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security should place restraints on\u00a0federal immigration authorities, including better identification for federal officers and more use of judicial warrants, among other asks.<\/p>\n

After federal agents shot\u00a0Renee Good\u00a0and\u00a0Alex Pretti\u00a0in Minneapolis, Trump\u00a0agreed to a Democratic request\u00a0that the Homeland Security bill be separated from a larger spending measure that became law. But bipartisan negotiations went nowhere, and the department funding lapsed in mid-February with no agreement on changes to the Trump administration\u2019s immigration enforcement tactics.<\/p>\n

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Congress eventually funded the rest of DHS at the end of April with Democratic support, but ICE and Border Patrol have remained without regular funding.<\/p>\n

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Associated Press writers Kevin Freking and Lisa Mascaro contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

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