Senate Republicans killed an effort by Democrats to permanently prevent President Trump's $1.8 billion 'anti-weaponization' fund from being created.

It was the second effort in Congress to rebuke President Trump in two days, following the House vote Wednesday to rein in Trump's war powers in Iran.

Senate Republicans rejected multiple efforts on Thursday to formally kill President Donald Trump’s push for a $1.8 billion fund to compensate people who claim they were victimized by the government.

The U.S. Senate handed President Donald Trump a victory early Friday morning, passing a bill that would provide the Department of Homeland Security ​with an additional $70 billion for immigration enforcement and sending it to the House of Representatives for final consideration.

The $1.8bn fund would have paid people the Trump administration decided were unjustly and politically targeted.

The Senate voted 52-47 to approve the legislation, with no support from Democrats and no provision to ban a $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund.

The House approved a war powers resolution that would halt the U.S. military action against Iran, defying President Donald Trump as a handful of Republicans joined with Democrats to seek to end the wa

President Trump declined to commit to permanently scrapping his $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, saying “I’d have to ask the lawyers.” “He can never gracefully admit that on this one I lost,” said House Intelligence Committee ranking member Jim Himes.