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With all the political drama the Senate finally passed a $1.1 trillion dollar spending bill on Saturday and now sends the measure on to the president for his signature.

The vote on the bill highlighted both parties’ enteral dynamics by pitting the establishment elements against the vocal populist wings, but finally settling on 56-40 vote with twenty one Democrats and nineteen Republicans voting against the bill.

NBC News reported the bill funds most of the government until September 2015, although it sets up another battle over the funding of the Department of Homeland Security early next year. Republicans who opposed the legislation said it did not do enough to curb the president’s immigration policy; some Democrats, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, objected to the insertion of language rolling back Wall Street reforms.

Senator Ted Cruz or Texas and Mike Lee of Utah demand a vote on condemning the president’s unilateral executive action on immigration.

NBC News continued to report under a deal struck late Saturday night; Cruz ultimately won a vote on a “constitutional point of order” to determine whether or not Obama’s executive actions on immigration are outside the boundaries of the president’s authority. But that measure failed 74-22, with many Republicans using their vote to express disapproval of the way Cruz pushed for the vote.

Actions by Senators Warren and Cruz, who objected to elements of the $1.1 trillion spending bill, could possibly be related to potential presidential ambitions of each.

Many progressive groups such as MoveOn.org have been pressuring Warren to challenge presumptive Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton for the White House in 2016.

Various liberal groups are opposed to Clinton’s cozy relationship with Wall Street and her more hawkish foreign policy which are the opposite of the more leftist wing of the Democratic Party.

Republican Ted Cruz is organizing a presidential exploratory committee and was possible using this fight to appeal to the more conservative elements of the Republican Party.

With the passage by the Senate of the spending bill the fight has now just been postponed until the new Congress is seated after the New Year.

Whatever any politician does from here on out will have to be looked through the lens of the 2016 presidential election.