Congress has sent President Barack Obama a sweeping $612 billion defense policy bill that he has threatened to veto over an ongoing partisan battle about government spending.
The Senate vote Wednesday to approve the measure was 70-27.
If Obama vetoes the bill, it would be only the fifth time a president has vetoed a defense authorization bill in the past half-century.
The House passed it last week, 269-151. There were enough Democratic votes to sustain a presidential veto.
Obama says he'll veto the bill because while it contains all the money he requested, he doesn't like the way Congress did it.
The bill increases defense spending by padding a war-fighting account with an extra $38 billion. And Congress didn't increase money for domestic agencies, too, as the president wants.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter called for Obama to veto the bill during a press conference last week.
