The long-awaited text of a supplemental spending bill that would fund aid for Ukraine and Israel and border security will be released in the coming days and voted on next week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced Thursday.
“We plan to release the full text of the national security supplement as early as tomorrow, as late as Sunday,” Schumer said on the Senate Floor, adding that he would file the motion a day later with a full vote by the chamber. no later than Wednesday.
“There is no more day without voting [next week],” Schumer emphasized. “While we respect members’ schedules and try to limit inconvenience, the challenges at the border and in Ukraine and the Middle East are too great.”
An additional $106 billion package was floated by President Biden last October that included $61.4 billion in military aid to Ukraine and $14.3 billion to Israel, as well as $13.6 billion for US border enforcement.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced in a floor speech Thursday evening that the long-awaited text for the Ukraine border deal will be released in the coming days, with a vote scheduled for next week. Bonnie Cash/UPI/Shutterstock Schumer and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) have strongly supported Ukraine funding. Getty Images
At least 60 votes are needed to clear the Senate party, forcing the House to consider the legislation before sending it to Biden’s desk.
The White House warned in December that funding to Ukraine was in danger of running out by the end of the year, but Kyiv president Volodymyr Zelensky later told congressional leaders that military funding would not run out until sometime this month.
Schumer and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) have supported Ukraine funding, with the latter saying on Thursday that the European Union had approved another $54 billion for Kyiv’s war effort against Russia this week.
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) has also drawn criticism from fellow conservatives for helping to negotiate the legislation with Sen. Chris Murphy. (D-Conn.) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.). AP
But both also support the Senate taking up immigration reform as the US faces record-breaking numbers of illegal immigrant crossings and rising rates of human and drug trafficking at the southern border.
However, the hard-line Republican Senate has rejected the legislation, blaming the Biden administration’s policy changes for the alarming statistics and pointing to a leaky provision that allows more than 1 million immigrants to enter the US illegally each year.
“The sum should be zero,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said of the reported details Wednesday in a fiery speech on the floor of the chamber, in which he called on Biden to use his executive authority to close the border.
“The number should be zero,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said of the reported details of a border deal that would legalize up to 1 million migrant crossings each year. Getty Images
Other potential solutions would still grant humanitarian parole to tens of thousands of migrants at designated airports, as well as pay for legal counsel provided to unaccompanied migrant children under the age of 13 and other migrants deemed mentally incompetent .
It would also increase the number of immigrant worker visas to 50,000 a year and grant additional work visas to spouses and children of H-1B holders and other immigrants within 180 days of their release into the US by Customs and Border Protection.
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) has drawn criticism from fellow conservatives for helping negotiate the legislation with Sen. Chris Murphy. (D-Conn.) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) — but have not confirmed the accuracy of any of the leaked provisions.
Other Republicans have blamed McConnell for taking away their “leverage” by tying border security provisions to national security provisions for Ukraine and Israel. AP
Other Republicans have blamed McConnell for taking away their “leverage” by tying border security provisions to national security provisions for Ukraine and Israel, which is still at war with Hamas terrorists.
Negotiations also appeared to have stalled after former President Donald Trump weighed in on the deal, calling it “a terrible open-borders betrayal of America.”
On Wednesday, House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) told reporters if any of the leaked content was accurate the Senate bill would be “dead on arrival” in the lower chamber, which is already considering the firing of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
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