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WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Senate Republicans abruptly left Washington on Thursday without voting on a roughly $70 billion bill to fund immigration enforcement agencies, frustrated with the White House and at an impasse over whether to try to block a new $1.776 billion settlement fund to compensate Trump allies who believe they have been politically prosecuted.<\/p>\n

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Republicans had already abandoned part of the bill that provided $1 billion in security money for the White House complex and President Donald Trump\u2019s ballroom amid backlash from members of their own party. But the settlement announced by the Justice Department this week prompted even more questions, spurring a push to limit the taxpayer dollars that some feared could go to Trump supporters who harmed law enforcement officers in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.<\/p>\n

A tense meeting with acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Thursday morning to discuss the settlement only heightened the frustration among senators. Soon after it ended, Republican leaders announced that they would not vote on the immigration enforcement measure until they returned from a Memorial Day recess the week of June 1, which was Trump’s self-imposed deadline for them to pass it.<\/p>\n

Blanche \u201chad an appreciation for the depth of feeling\u201d among GOP senators, Senate Majority Leader John Thune said afterward as a growing number of them spoke out against the idea.<\/p>\n

Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, the former GOP leader, called the settlement \u201cutterly stupid, morally wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe nation\u2019s top law enforcement official is asking for a slush fund to pay people who assault cops?\u201d McConnell said in a statement afterward.<\/p>\n

The last-minute scramble on the bill came as Democrats have criticized Republicans for trying to fund Trump\u2019s ballroom when voters are concerned about affordability issues \u2014 and as some GOP lawmakers have grown increasingly frustrated with Trump.<\/p>\n

Several GOP senators have spoken out against the Justice Department settlement announced this week, and many were upset by the president\u2019s Tuesday endorsement of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in next week\u2019s primary runoff against Sen. John Cornyn.<\/p>\n

Growing tensions with the White House derail bill<\/p>\n

Both sides have acknowledged the tensions. Thune said Thursday that the White House should have consulted Congress before it announced the settlement, which he said made \u201ceverything way harder than it should be.\u201d Trump’s endorsement of Cornyn’s opponent also complicated matters, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s hard to divorce anything that happens here from what\u2019s happening in the political atmosphere around us,” Thune told reporters. “There is a political component to everything we do around here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump unloaded on senators in a social media post Wednesday, urging Republicans to fire the Senate parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, who said over the weekend that parts of the $1 billion White House security proposal did not qualify for the ICE and Border Patrol bill. Trump also renewed his long-standing calls for the Senate to pass the SAVE Act, a Republican bill that would require voters to prove U.S. citizenship, and to end the Senate filibuster.<\/p>\n

Republicans need to \u201cget smart and tough,\u201d Trump said, or \u201cyou\u2019ll all be looking for a job much sooner than you thought possible!\u201d<\/p>\n

While they have been loyal to Trump on most issues, Senate Republicans have resisted his repeated calls over the years to kill the filibuster, which creates a 60-vote threshold for most bills in the Senate.<\/p>\n

Asked Thursday at the White House if he was losing control of the Senate, Trump replied: \u201cI really don\u2019t know. I can tell you \u2014 I only do what\u2019s right.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hanging over the growing GOP rift is Trump\u2019s surprise endorsement of Paxton. That intervention has Republican senators privately fuming that it could cost them their majority in November as they view the incumbent, Cornyn, as the stronger candidate.<\/p>\n

Possible parameters on Trump’s settlement fund<\/p>\n

The \u201canti-weaponization\u201d fund, part of a settlement that resolves Trump\u2019s lawsuit against the IRS over the leak of his tax returns, unexpectedly became one of the main complications in the bill after Democrats announced that they would force votes to block it or place restrictions on it.<\/p>\n

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Democrats have an opening because Republicans are trying to pass the immigration enforcement bill through a budget process that allows a long series of amendment votes. The Democratic amendments would block the fund outright or ban any payments to Trump supporters who harmed law enforcement officers on Jan. 6, 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only way for Republicans to get out of this box is to stop backing the slush fund, stop pushing the ballroom, and as soon as we get back, join Democrats in fighting to lower Americans\u2019 costs on health care, on housing, on power, on so much else,\u201d Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer of New York said after senators left town.<\/p>\n

As it became clear that the Democratic amendments could pass, Republicans began discussing their own last-minute additions to head that off \u2014 an idea that appeared to have support in the GOP conference but could threaten eventual support of the bill in the House or make a presidential veto more likely.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there\u2019s reasonable limitations that can be put on it,\u201d said Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., one of Trump’s top allies in the Senate.<\/p>\n

Secret Service request falters<\/p>\n

Under the Secret Service\u2019s request, about $220 million would fund security improvements related to the ballroom. The rest would go for a new screening center for visitors, training and other security measures.<\/p>\n

After it became clear that Republicans would abandon that proposal, Trump told reporters at the White House on Thursday that \u201cI don\u2019t need money for the ballroom,\u201d which he had originally said would be paid for with private funds. Still, if Congress doesn\u2019t approve the request, he said the White House \u201cwon\u2019t be a very secure place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said the effort to add the security package to the bill was a \u201cbad idea.\u201d The bill should not have included the other security improvements, he said, \u201cbecause it\u2019s just giving everybody the \u2018billion-dollar ballroom.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Left in the bill is the money for ICE and Border Patrol, which Democrats have blocked for months in protest of the administration’s immigration enforcement crackdown.<\/p>\n

Democrats demanded changes for the agencies, but negotiations with the White House yielded little progress. So Republicans are using the complicated budget maneuver called reconciliation \u2014 the same process that allowed them to pass Trump’s tax and spending cuts bill last year \u2014 to fund the agencies through the end of Trump’s term without any Democratic support.<\/p>\n

Still, passage requires sign-off from the parliamentarian and unity from Republicans.<\/p>\n

Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., said the Senate’s responsibility should be to focus on funding ICE and Border Patrol.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen other extraneous things get in the middle of it, it makes it more difficult,” he said.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

Associated Press writers Collin Binkley, Stephen Groves and Joey Cappelletti contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

This story has been corrected to reflect that the settlement fund is $1.8 billion, not $1.8 trillion<\/p>\n

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