Live from NPR News in Washington, on Corvac Coleman, the Senate has adopted a budget resolution on a 52-48 party line vote this morning.

Senators wrapped up business just about an hour ago after pulling an all-nighter.

Republicans are using the resolution to address items on President Trump's agenda.

But Trump has said he prefers the House's approach to his agenda rather than the Senate measure.

NPR's Barbara Sprunt explains.

The Senate and the House are pursuing different strategies in helping the White House get more funding for the southern border and extend the 2017 tax cuts.

The House wants to tackle the components in one big bill.

The Senate thinks it's more expeditious to split it into two bills, one for now

and one later this year. The Senate is undertaking what's known as a voterrama, where lawmakers

bring amendments often aimed at making members of the other party take challenging votes.

Barbara Sprunt and Pier News, the Capitol. The Senate has also voted to confirm Cash Patel as the new

director of the FBI.

NPR's Ryan Lucas reports Patel's controversial nomination was adopted despite fierce

opposition from Democrats. The Republican-led Senate confirmed Patel by a vote of 51 to 49 to lead

the FBI, the nation's most powerful law enforcement agency. Two Republican senators, Maine, Susan Collins, and Alaska's Lisa Murkowski, joined all Senate Democrats in opposition.

Patel is a former prosecutor and was a national security official in Trump's first term.

He's also a Trump loyalist and fierce critic of the FBI.

His Republican supporters say he will fix what they argue

is the politicization of the FBI against conservatives. Patel's critics, meanwhile, say he lacks

the necessary experience and temperament to lead the Bureau and worry that he will use the FBI's

vast powers to make good on his repeated threats to go after his and Trump's perceived

enemies. Ryan Lucas NPR News, Washington. A federal judge is allowing the Trump administration

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