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The U.S. Senate has passed a 1.4-trillion-dollar spending package that is expected to be signed into law by President Donald Trump.

The spending bills – approved in two votes of 73-21 and 81-11 – come ahead of a Friday deadline to fund the government or face a shutdown.

Last year, Republican lawmakers and Trump used the budget deadline as political leverage in a bid to get funding for Trump’s border wall with Mexico.

The stalemate over wall funding led to the longest government shutdown in U.S. history at 35 days.

This year lawmakers across the partisan divide said they wanted …