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Senate Recesses After Midnight Vote; Immigration Funding Stalls, Surveillance Passes

4/25/2026

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Senators departed for recess after an overnight voting marathon, leaving the immigration-enforcement funding dispute unresolved.
The Senate completed a late-night vote-a-rama on budget amendments to fund immigration-enforcement agencies, but the House rejected the deal.
Republican Senators John Kennedy and Kevin Cramer warned that the overnight grind harms members’ health and reflects dysfunction among lawmakers.
GOP leaders kept members past midnight to cobble a 10-day foreign-surveillance extension, which passed after 2 a.m.

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Senators departed for recess after an overnight voting marathon, leaving the immigration-enforcement funding dispute unresolved.
The Senate completed a late-night vote-a-rama on budget amendments to fund immigration-enforcement agencies, but the House rejected the deal.
Republican Senators John Kennedy and Kevin Cramer warned that the overnight grind harms members’ health and reflects dysfunction among lawmakers.
GOP leaders kept members past midnight to cobble a 10-day foreign-surveillance extension, which passed after 2 a.m.