WASHINGTON — The Senate voted yesterday to provide $70 billion for American military efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, handing a victory to President Bush and his GOP allies on Capitol Hill.

The 70–25 roll call paved the way for the Senate to pass a $555 billion omnibus appropriations bill combining the war funding with the budgets for 14 Cabinet agencies.

Mr. Bush was ready to sign the bill, assuming the war funding clears the House today. Democrats again failed to win votes to force removal of American troops or set a nonbinding target to remove most troops by the end of next year.

“Even those of us who have disagreed on this war have always agreed on one thing: Troops in the field will not be left without the resources they need,” the minority leader, Senator McConnell, a Republican of Kentucky, said.

The year-end budget deal between the Democratic-controlled Congress and Mr. Bush ended months of battling and disappointed GOP purists who complained the bill spends too much money and contains about 9,000 pet projects sought by members of Congress.

“Congress refuses to rein in its wasteful spending or curb its corruption,” Rep. John Shadegg, a Republican of Arizona, said. Conservatives estimated the measure contained at least $28 billion in domestic spending above Mr. Bush’s budget, funded by a combination of “emergency” spending, transfers from the defense budget, budget gimmicks, and phantom savings.

With Mr. Bush winning the $70 billion infusion of troop funding, other Republicans muted their criticism.

“I do think the president has a victory here,” the House minority whip, Rep. Roy Blunt, a Republican of Missouri, said.

But the win was hardly clear-cut for Republicans hoping the president would emerge from the months-long battle with Democrats over the budget with a result that would more clearly demonstrate to core GOP voters the party’s commitment to fiscal discipline.

While disappointed by ceding Iraq funding to Mr. Bush, Democrats hailed the pending appropriations bill for smoothing the rough edges of Mr. Bush’s February budget plan, which sought below-inflation increases for most domestic programs and contained numerous cutbacks and program eliminations.

The omnibus bill largely yields to the President’s top-line budget numbers, but it also addresses some of the bottom-line priorities of the American people,” Senator Harkin, a Democrat of Iowa, said. “The Grinch tried to steal Christmas, but we didn’t let him get all of it.”