Welcome to the NewsHour. The Senate is in the midst of voting on $72 billion of fresh funding for border patrol and immigration and customs enforcement. The package has been held up for months since federal agents killed two U.S. citizens protesting immigration crackdowns in Minnesota. It stalled again when the Trump administration proposed nearly $2 billion for his so-called

anti-weaponization fund, which could compensate January 6th rioters. Amendment votes are expected to run

well into the night, but it's still unclear at this hour whether Republican leaders will ultimately

be able to wrangle enough votes to pass the measure. Congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardin is here with the latest on that measure and the other

Capitol Hill debates driving a wedge between legislative leaders and President Donald Trump.

Lisa's good to see you.

Good to see you.

So where do things stand right now when it comes to funding for ICE and this anti-weaponization

fund?

After eight months, it does look like the ICE funding is lumbering perhaps toward passage

tonight on the Senate floor, but the process is tedious.

As you can see, this is that process called Vodorama.

It is definitely not as fun as that indicates.

It is really more of a stare-down, the process of exhausting senators through an endless series

of amendments.

But I am told it could end as soon as tonight on the floor.

Now in this debate, the two parties are not just divided, Omna, they really are having two separate

debates.

First of all, for Republicans, this is about the ICE funding, about the border, and about what they say is a debate

over security itself.

What you get is a secure border versus a broken border. What you get is ICE being able to do its

job instead of being closed for business. To my Democratic college, you're on the wrong side of this issue.

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