The Senate voted along party lines to start debate on a Republican bill to fund immigration enforcement through the end of President Trump's term.

In the Senate, a vote along party lines advanced a $72 billion reconciliation bill to fund immigration enforcement agencies through the rest of President Donald Trump’s term. The revised version of this bill drops some of the items the president wanted after the Department of Justice confirmed it wouldn’t move forward with Trump’s $1.

The Senate voted 53-46 on Wednesday to begin debate on the roughly $70 billion bill to fund U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol. The legislation was delayed for weeks as Republican senators navigated the various obstacles to passage created by President Donald Trump and the White House,

The Republican-led Senate is moving forward with legislation to fund immigration enforcement agencies after forcing the Trump administration to say it will drop its settlement fund for political allies and stripping a separate proposal for White House security from the bill.

Senate Republicans are pushing ahead with their partisan $70 billion bill to fund immigration enforcement, but the effort faces some uncertainty because of lingering concerns about the Trump administration’s scuttled plans for a $1.

Senate Republicans plowed ahead on Wednesday with their immigration enforcement budget package that was derailed ahead of the Memorial Day recess over concerns about President Donald Trump’s “anti-weaponization fund.

Senate Republicans moved forward with a package to fund the Department of Homeland Security's immigration agencies Wednesday.

While the Senate voted 53 to 46 Wednesday afternoon on a procedural motion to advance the stalled $70 billion immigration measure, GOP lawmakers signaled they hadn’t resolved remaining intraparty disagreements,