The Senate approved $70 billion to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol through the end of President Trump’s term early Friday, following weeks of delays amid intra-GOP sniping over a $1.776 billion settlement fund meant to help victims of government weaponization.

The 52-47 final vote approving the legislation came just before 5 a.m., after Republicans defeated more than two dozen amendments in a so-called “vote-a-rama,” including one offered by Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) that would have redirected payments from the settlement to members of law enforcement who were injured in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

The measure goes to the House, which is expected to take it up early next week.

The amendments complicated what should have been an easy vote for Republicans who want to keep the focus on immigration enforcement in a midterm 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 told lawmakers Tuesday it would not go forward.

“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-SD) told reporters shortly before midnight Thursday.

Thune himself was among those who criticized the fund, which was created as part of a settlement that resolves Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS over the leak of his tax returns to the New York Times, which published them as part of a report on the president’s finances in September 2020.

However, Thune had pushed GOP senators for weeks to keep the bill narrowly focused on border security and 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 settlement’s payouts through legislation.

That effort came after Trump raised new doubts about the settlement’s future Wednesday afternoon, when he told reporters that the settlement is “very important” and that “I don’t know” whether it is dead or on hold.

“I’d have to ask the lawyers,” he said.

Thursday morning’s first vote, a motion by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to ban the settlement fund, was held open for several hours before being rejected 50-49. Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Jon Husted of Ohio and Dan Sullivan of Alaska, all of whom are up for re-election this year, voted “aye.”

The Senate then overwhelmingly rejected a second amendment from Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) that would also have banned the settlement fund but moved the money to a separate anti-fraud pool at the Department of Justice.

“If Blanche says this is largely inoperative, why not use this moment to codify that?” said Tillis, who is retiring rather than seeking another term this fall. “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, which was rejected 52-47, was a pointed rebuke, as payouts from Trump’s fund potentially could have gone to supporters who attacked officers on Jan. 6.

Despite Blanche’s comments, Cassidy noted that the fund was still part of an active settlement and “absolutely can be used.”

Other amendments rejected by the Senate included a measure that would have banned payouts to Capitol riot defendants who injured law enforcement officers.

Schumer warned that by rejecting the amendments, Senate Republicans were “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.”

Enactment of the funding bill would end a blockade by Democrats who demanded policy changes after the fatal shootings of two anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota by federal agents this past January.

Democrats say any more money for the Department of Homeland Security should require restraints on federal immigration authorities, including better identification for federal officers and more use of judicial warrants, among other asks.

After the Minnesota shootings, 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’s funding lapsed in mid-February with no agreement on changes to 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.

With Post wires