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WSJ Minute Briefing

Senate Passes $70 Billion Immigration Bill Without Killing Trump Fund

WSJ Minute Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Business News, News

4.1671 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus: Anthropic calls on top artificial-intelligence labs to consider slowing down their development. Senior U.S. officials discuss having the federal government take stakes in major AI companies. And the FDA launches a safety study of the abortion pill mifepristone. Luke Vargas hosts. Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Here is your morning brief for Friday, June 5th. I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal.

0:38.5

After a 19-hour session, the Senate has passed a $70 billion immigration enforcement bill

0:44.7

to fund Border Patrol and ICE through the end of President Trump's second term without

0:49.8

reining in a controversial anti-weaponization fund. Lawmakers from both parties initially

0:55.2

objected to the fund over concerns that taxpayer money could be used to compensate Trump's allies

0:59.9

and reward those who assaulted police officers on January 6th. But Republican senators eventually

1:05.5

stopped short of using their political leverage to kill the fund with only Alaska's Lisa Murkowski

1:10.4

joining Democrats to vote against

1:12.0

the bill. The House is expected to take up the immigration enforcement measure next week.

1:17.4

Anthropic is calling on top AI labs to consider slowing down their development, saying that

1:22.4

AI systems are advancing so rapidly that they may soon be able to improve themselves without

1:27.4

humans.

1:28.4

That warning, written by the head of Anthropics Internal Research Institute and accompanied

1:32.2

by a proposal for a global agreement on how to slow AI development, comes as the company

1:36.9

pursues an IPO and recently concluded a fundraising round that valued it at nearly a trillion

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