Washington, United States – The U.S. Senate on June 5, 2026, approved a roughly $70 billion immigration enforcement bill to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol through the end of President Donald Trump’s current term. The measure, one of the largest immigration enforcement packages of Trump’s second term, passed after an all-night session that featured an 18-hour vote-a-rama in which senators considered a long series of amendments stretching into the early morning hours. Republicans used a procedural maneuver to sidestep the filibuster, allowing them to advance the legislation without Democratic support and secure a party-line victory that had been in doubt for weeks. The bill’s passage marked a major step in Trump’s push to expand deportations and tighten border enforcement across the United States while ensuring continued funding for ICE and Border Patrol operations. The debate turned into a flashpoint over Trump’s broader agenda, as Democrats offered amendments targeting what they called the president’s anti-weaponization fund, a pool of money Trump has linked to people he says were politically persecuted. Senate Republicans, relying in part on Sen. Bill Cassidy to help defeat a key Democratic proposal, rejected those efforts, as well as attempts to challenge Trump’s requests for funding related to White House renovations and security upgrades, exposing growing tension within the Republican Party over the direction of immigration and executive branch policy.

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