Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman.
The Senate has passed a huge measure that will fund federal immigration efforts for three years.
It's worth about $70 billion.
The Senate debate lasted about 18 hours, and in the end, it was a near party-line vote.
Democrats tried to add an amendment that would block one of President Trump's priorities.
That's to create a nearly $2 billion fund to pay people who claimed they were targeted by the federal government.
NPR's Barbara Sprunt says that amendment failed.
There was bipartisan pushback at that.
Anti-weaponization fund.
The acting attorney general said it's not going to move forward, which seemed to satisfy senators.
But then the president told reporters he didn't actually know if it was scrapped or not.
And he said that knowing that there are these Republican senators who are uncomfortable with the idea.
So this moment for congressional Republicans is about passing this priority after all this time.
But it's also a moment where there's this increasing tension and conflict with the White House.
And I don't think that's stopping anytime soon.
Reporting.
Just a week after a Russian drone crashed into an apartment building in eastern Romania,
an armed drone exploded in a Romanian port.
Terri Schultz says there were no injuries or major damage.
The Romanian Defense Ministry says the naval drone self-detonated mid-morning after being detected