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Speaker Mike Johnson scaled back the measure to two years from five after Donald J. Trump had urged Republicans to “kill” it. An effort to require warrants to search for Americans’ messages failed on a tie.

Right-wing lawmakers blocked a move by Speaker Johnson to extend a key foreign intelligence surveillance tool after former President Donald J. Trump urged lawmakers to “kill” the law underlying it.

After hours of delay, the Senate overwhelmingly voted for the $1.2 trillion bill to fund more than half of the government, sending the measure to President Biden’s desk.

The defeat of the immigration-Ukraine-Israel package marks the end of the party of Eisenhower, Reagan and McCain.

President Biden accused the House GOP of thwarting legislation tightening immigration rules and providing aid to Ukraine and Israel out of fear of their 2024 front-runner, Donald Trump.

The G.O.P. abandoned a bipartisan border security bill that also aided Ukraine after Democrats called their bluff on immigration, agreeing to tough measures Republicans demanded.

Republicans have scuttled efforts to rewrite immigration laws repeatedly over the past two decades, despite powerful bipartisan coalitions behind the efforts.

The former president’s opposition has all but killed the prospects for a bipartisan border deal, reflecting how his influence in Congress has grown as he gains ground in the Republican primary.

The minority leader privately told Republicans that the former president had put his party “in a quandary,” casting further doubt on the deal’s chances and the fate of Ukraine aid that the G.O.P. has tied to it.