The U.S. Senate passed a Republican bill promoting President Donald Trump's immigration, energy and defense policies in the early hours of Friday morning, despite Trump's preference for a House of Representatives version of the bill that would include trillions of dollars in tax cuts.

The Senate passed its slimmed-down budget reconciliation package early Friday morning, approving hundreds of billions of dollars to go toward the southern border and national defense in a bill that could be dead on arrival in the House.

Senate Republicans are pushing ahead with their $340 billion budget bill focused on funding the White House’s mass deportations and border security agenda