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WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Senate Republicans cleared the first hurdle on Thursday as they are struggling to pass legislation to fund President Donald Trump\u2019s immigration enforcement agencies, narrowly beating back a Democratic effort to permanently block Trump from creating a $1.776 billion settlement fund for payouts to allies who claim they were persecuted by the government. <\/p>\n

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Republicans still face a gauntlet of Democratic amendments before the bill can advance, setting up a daylong test of party unity. More votes on the settlement fund are planned, including proposals from Republicans, and it was unclear if GOP leaders would be able to fend them all off and pass the legislation. <\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t predict how it comes out,\u201d Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters between discussions with some of the holdouts off the Senate floor. <\/p>\n

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said that Democrats plan to force votes on the tax immunity granted to Trump as part of the settlement and a host of other issues \u2014 including Trump\u2019s East Wing ballroom project, his tariffs, his war with Iran and his immigration enforcement campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmendment after amendment, vote after vote, Republicans are going to have to answer to the American people,\u201d Schumer said.<\/p>\n

Settlement fund roils Senate GOP conference <\/h3>\n

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said this week that the fund would not move forward, and many GOP senators said Wednesday that they were satisfied with his remarks. <\/p>\n

Yet Trump, who has been at odds with Senate Republicans in recent weeks, raised new doubts about the settlement\u2019s future on Wednesday afternoon \u2014 just after the Senate had voted to start debate on the immigration bill \u2014 when he told reporters that the settlement is \u201cvery important\u201d and said \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d whether it is dead or on hold.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d have to ask the lawyers,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Republican Sens. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, John Husted of Ohio and Dan Sullivan of Alaska held out for around three hours on the Democratic amendment banning the settlement amid discussions over whether to vote for it. <\/p>\n

Cassidy, who eventually voted against the amendment, lost re-election in a GOP primary two weeks ago after Trump endorsed his opponent. Husted and Sullivan, who voted against it, are both up for re-election in November. <\/p>\n

Senators then defeated a second amendment from Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina that would also ban the settlement fund but would move 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

\u201cIf Blanche says this is largely inoperative, why not use this moment to codify that?\u201d Tillis said ahead of the vote. \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

It was unclear how Republicans would vote on additional amendments. Cassidy is also planning to offer an additional attempt to curb the fund, and he appeared to be in conversations with the Senate parliamentarian throughout the morning as he brought her proposals to review. <\/p>\n

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ICE and Border Patrol money has been long fight<\/h3>\n

Passage of the roughly $70 billion bill to fund U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol would end the blockade by Democrats who demanded policy changes after the fatal shootings of two protesters by federal agents in January. The bill would fund the agencies for three years, through the end of Trump\u2019s term. <\/p>\n

Senate Republicans are using a complicated procedural maneuver to get around the filibuster and pass the budget legislation with no Democratic votes. But it has taken 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 a $1 billion proposal for White House security that they eventually scrapped and the fierce bipartisan backlash to the settlement fund. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe thing we\u2019re trying to do here is to keep the focus on funding for ICE and CBP,\u201d Thune said Wednesday evening, after the Senate voted to start debating the legislation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was narrow and targeted from the very beginning and clean, and we\u2019re trying to maintain it that way,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

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

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

Congress eventually funded the rest of the Homeland Security Department at the end of April with Democratic support. But ICE and Border Patrol remained without regular funding, and Republicans launched a new effort to pass three years of funding for those agencies with no Democratic votes. <\/p>\n

Security money for Trump\u2019s ballroom dropped <\/h3>\n

Work on the legislation was also delayed by Republican opposition to $1 billion in security funding for the White House, including for Trump\u2019s new ballroom, that was added to the original bill. <\/p>\n

Democrats and some Republicans questioned using taxpayer money for the massive project, and Republicans did not include it in the final bill when it was released on Wednesday. <\/p>\n

Republican House leaders said Wednesday they would like to clear the legislation before the end of the week, if the Senate can finish it. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., said that House leaders were having internal conversations about the schedule. <\/p>\n

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\u201cWe just need to make sure everybody\u2019s there,\u201d Scalise said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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