The Senate on Wednesday passed a bill authorizing $4.6 billion in emergency spending for humanitarian aid at the southern border, setting up a fight with the House, which approved a version that puts sharp restrictions on the Trump administration.

President Trump backs the Senate measure.

Senate Republicans were pressing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to pass the upper chamber’s version, which passed 84-8, before Congress leaves for its Fourth of July recess this week.

Pelosi, who talked to Trump about the bill Wednesday afternoon, rejected their appeals.

​”​They pass their bill. We respect that. We passed our bill, we hope they would respect that. And there’s some improvements that we think can be reconciled​,​” ​she said. ​

​The House passed its version mainly along party lines Tuesday evening and it contains funding to address the growing humanitarian crisis at the border after reports said migrant children were being held in overcrowded detention centers in squalid and filthy conditions.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell trashed the House version​, which his chamber had rejected earlier​.

​”​It’s a go-nowhere proposal filled with poison-pill riders which the president has indicated he would veto,” the Kentucky Republican said.

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​While both the Senate and House ​include more than $1 billion to feed and shelter migrants and more than $3 billion to care for the detained children, the House bill sets stricter guidelines for how the administration can use the funds.

​With Post wires​