参议院批准一项700亿美元的移民法案，为特朗普总统的移民执法机构提供未来三年资金
【中美创新时报2026年6月6日讯】（记者温友平编译）经过数周的拖延和对一项无关的 17.76 亿美元和解基金的强烈反对后，参议院于周五早些时候通过了为特朗普总统的移民执法机构提供资金的法案，该基金一度威胁到该法案的通过。美联社记者玛丽·克莱尔·贾洛尼克和乔伊·卡佩莱蒂对此作了下述报道。
在民主党人阻挠数月后，参议院以52票赞成、47票反对的投票结果通过了700亿美元的拨款法案，为美国移民和海关执法局以及边境巡逻队提供未来三年的资金，直至特朗普任期结束。该法案现在将提交众议院，预计众议院将于下周进行审议。
最终投票在凌晨 5 点前进行，此前共和党人以微弱优势否决了两党成员多次试图在法案中添加条款的努力，这些条款将永久禁止特朗普的和解基金用于那些认为自己受到政治迫害的盟友。
共和党人一夜之间扫清了最后一个主要障碍，他们否决了由他们自己的成员之一，路易斯安那州参议员比尔·卡西迪提出的一项修正案。该修正案原本会将和解金中的部分款项重新分配给在 2021 年 1 月 6 日一群试图推翻特朗普 2020 年总统选举失败结果的特朗普支持者袭击国会大厦时受伤的执法人员。
这些修正案是对共和党团结的一次考验，原本共和党人希望在选举年继续将焦点放在移民执法上，原本应该是一次轻松的投票，却因这些修正案而变得复杂起来。他们花了几乎整整一天的时间争论是否要阻止和解基金的设立，即便代理司法部长托德·布兰奇本周早些时候已经表示不会继续推进。
参议院否决了阻止特朗普设立18亿美元和解基金的首次尝试
“如果我们不必处理与该基金相关的一些问题，这件事几个小时前就该完成了，”参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩（John Thune）在午夜前不久说道。
图恩本人曾批评过这项基金，该基金是特朗普起诉美国国税局泄露其纳税申报表一事达成的和解协议的一部分，这激怒了他的许多共和党同僚。但他数周以来一直敦促共和党参议员们将法案的重点放在为移民和海关执法局以及边境巡逻队提供资金上，并避免添加可能使法案在众议院获得通过变得复杂的条款。
尽管如此，一群共和党参议员仍彻夜奔走，试图通过立法阻止该基金的支付。此前，特朗普总统近几周来一直与参议院意见相左，他周三告诉记者，该基金“非常重要”，并表示“我不知道”它是已经终止还是暂时搁置，这番言论再次引发了人们对该基金未来的担忧。
该法案最终以52票赞成、47票反对获得通过，投票结果几乎完全按照党派划分，阿拉斯加州共和党参议员丽莎·穆尔科斯基是唯一投反对票的共和党人。科罗拉多州民主党参议员迈克尔·贝内特缺席了投票。
参议员们多次否决了禁止和解基金的提案
周四上午的第一轮投票，是民主党提出的禁止使用和解基金的动议。由于卡西迪和其他两位共和党参议员需要决定是否支持该动议，投票持续了数小时。最终，卡西迪投了反对票，而另外两位参议员——俄亥俄州的乔恩·赫斯特德和阿拉斯加州的丹·沙利文（两人今年都面临连任选举）——投了赞成票，民主党的动议以微弱劣势被否决。
随后，参议院否决了北卡罗来纳州共和党参议员汤姆·蒂利斯提出的第二项修正案。该修正案同样禁止使用和解基金，但会将资金转移到司法部设立的独立反欺诈基金中。大多数民主党人投票反对该修正案，确保其被否决，但有超过10名共和党人投了赞成票。
蒂利斯表示，这笔资金对该党来说是一个政治包袱。
“如果布兰奇说这项措施基本无效，为什么不借此机会将其正式写入法律呢？”蒂利斯说，“否则，我们所有正在任期内的成员都将面临从今天到选举日期间处理此事的风险，而司法部已经表示不会推进此事，这毫无意义。”
卡西迪提出的赔偿受伤警官的修正案是对特朗普基金的尖锐批评，因为特朗普的基金原本可能会将赔偿金用于1月6日殴打警察和袭击国会大厦的特朗普支持者身上。上个月，特朗普支持了一位初选对手，卡西迪因此落选。
他表示，尽管布兰奇发表了上述言论，但该基金仍然是有效和解协议的一部分，“绝对可以使用”。
参议院驳回了民主党人为阻止或限制该基金而提出的其他几项努力，包括禁止向 1 月 6 日伤害执法人员的被告支付款项的修正案。
参议院少数党领袖、纽约州民主党参议员查克·舒默表示，共和党人现在“让纳税人只能寄希望于唐纳德·特朗普的私人掮客的承诺。这不是问责，而是放任不管。”
美国移民及海关执法局（ICE）和边境巡逻队的资金已被拖欠数月
为美国移民及海关执法局 (ICE) 和边境巡逻队提供资金的法案一旦获得通过，将结束民主党人的阻挠。此前，联邦特工在 1 月份枪杀了 2 名抗议者，民主党人一直要求改变政策。
参议院共和党人利用复杂的程序手段绕过了冗长辩论，在没有获得任何民主党人支持的情况下通过了预算案。但由于共和党人需要应对特朗普和白宫设置的重重障碍，包括最终被他们放弃的10亿美元白宫安保和特朗普宴会厅建设预算案，以及两党对和解基金的强烈反对，该法案才得以在参议院全体会议上进行表决。
民主党人表示，任何为国土安全部提供的资金法案都应该对联邦移民当局施加限制，包括加强对联邦官员的身份识别，更多地使用司法搜查令等。
在联邦特工于明尼阿波利斯枪杀蕾妮·古德和亚历克斯·普雷蒂之后，特朗普同意了民主党的要求，将国土安全法案从一项最终生效的更大规模的支出法案中分离出来。但两党谈判毫无进展，国土安全部的拨款在2月中旬到期，而双方仍未就特朗普政府的移民执法策略调整达成一致。
在民主党的支持下，国会最终在四月底为国土安全部的其他部门提供了资金，但移民和海关执法局以及边境巡逻队仍然没有获得定期拨款。
美联社记者凯文·弗雷金和丽莎·马斯卡罗对本报道亦有贡献。
题图：参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩。J . Scott Applewhite/美联社照片/J. Scott Applewhite
附原英文报道：
Senate OKs $70b immigration bill after rejecting efforts to permanently ban Trump’s settlement fund
By MARY CLARE JALONICK and JOEY CAPPELLETTI The Associated Press,Updated June 5, 2026
Senate Majority Leader John Thune.J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
WASHINGTON — The Senate passed legislation to fund President Trump’s immigration enforcement agencies early Friday, after weeks of delays and fierce backlash to an unrelated $1.776 billion settlement fund that threatened to derail the bill.
Senators voted 52-47 to pass the $70 billion legislation to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol for the next three years, through the end of Trump’s term, after Democrats blocked the money for months. The bill will now head to the House, which is expected to take it up next week.
The final vote came just before 5 a.m., after Republicans narrowly defeated multiple attempts by members of both parties to add language to the bill that would permanently ban Trump’s settlement fund for allies who believe they’ve been politically persecuted.
Republicans cleared the last major hurdle overnight when they defeated an amendment proposed by one of their own members, Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, that would have redirected payments from the settlement to members of law enforcement who were injured when a mob of Trump supporters seeking to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The amendments were a test of party unity that complicated what should have been an easy vote for Republicans who wanted to keep the focus on immigration enforcement in an election year. Instead, they spent almost a full day haggling among themselves over whether to block the settlement fund, even after acting Attorney General Todd Blanche had said earlier this week that it would not go forward.
Senate rejects first effort to bar Trump from creating $1.8b settlement fund
“This would have been done several hours ago if we weren’t having to deal with some of the issues around the fund,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said shortly before midnight.
Thune himself has criticized the fund, which was part of a settlement that resolves Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS over the leak of his tax returns and has angered many of his GOP colleagues. But he has been pushing GOP senators for weeks to keep the bill focused on the funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol and to avoid adding new provisions that could complicate its passage in the House.
Still, a group of Republican senators pushed all day and into the night to block the fund’s payouts through legislation. That effort came after Trump, who has been at odds with the Senate in recent weeks, raised new doubts about the fund’s future on Wednesday when he told reporters that it is “very important” and said “I don’t know” whether it is dead or on hold.
The final 52-47 vote on the bill was nearly party line, with Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska the only Republican to oppose it. Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado missed the vote.
Senators push back multiple attempts to ban settlement fund
The first vote on Thursday morning, a Democratic effort to ban the settlement fund, was held open for several hours while Cassidy and two other Republican senators decided whether to support it. The Democratic motion was narrowly defeated when Cassidy eventually voted against it and the two other senators — Jon Husted of Ohio and Dan Sullivan of Alaska, both of whom are up for reelection this year — voted for it.
The Senate then rejected a second amendment from Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina that would also have banned the settlement fund but would have moved the money to a separate anti-fraud fund at the Department of Justice. Most Democrats voted against the amendment, guaranteeing its defeat, but more than 10 Republicans supported it.
Tillis said the fund is a political liability for the party.
“If Blanche says this is largely inoperative, why not use this moment to codify that?” Tillis said. “Otherwise, you’re exposing every one of our members who are in cycle to having to deal with this between today and Election Day, and that makes no sense for something that the DOJ says they’re not moving forward with.”
Cassidy’s amendment to compensate the injured police officers was a pointed rebuke, as payouts from Trump’s fund could have potentially gone to Trump supporters who beat police and attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6. Cassidy lost reelection last month after Trump endorsed a primary opponent.
He said that, despite Blanche’s comments, the fund is still part of an active settlement and “absolutely can be used.”
The Senate rejected several other Democratic efforts to try to block or limit the fund, including amendments to ban payments to Jan. 6 defendants who injured law enforcement officers.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Republicans are now “leaving taxpayers to rely on nothing more than a promise from Donald Trump’s personal fixer. That is not accountability. That is a permission slip.”
ICE and Border Patrol money has been delayed for months
Enactment of the bill to fund ICE and the Border Patrol would end the blockade by Democrats who demanded policy changes after the fatal shootings of two protesters by federal agents in January.
Senate Republicans used a complicated procedural maneuver to get around the filibuster and pass the budget legislation with no Democratic votes. But it took weeks to get the bill to the Senate floor as Republicans navigated various obstacles to passage created by Trump and the White House — including a $1 billion proposal for White House security and Trump’s ballroom that they eventually scrapped and the fierce bipartisan backlash to the settlement fund.
Democrats say any funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security should place restraints on federal immigration authorities, including better identification for federal officers and more use of judicial warrants, among other asks.
After federal agents shot Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Trump agreed to a Democratic request that the Homeland Security bill be separated from a larger spending measure that became law. But bipartisan negotiations went nowhere, and the department funding lapsed in mid-February with no agreement on changes to the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement tactics.
Congress eventually funded the rest of DHS at the end of April with Democratic support, but ICE and Border Patrol have remained without regular funding.
Associated Press writers Kevin Freking and Lisa Mascaro contributed to this report.
