{"id":15498,"date":"2024-02-13T12:48:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T12:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/13\/senate-on-path-to-advance-foreign-aid-bill-despite-some-republican-opposition\/"},"modified":"2024-02-13T12:48:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T12:48:20","slug":"senate-on-path-to-advance-foreign-aid-bill-despite-some-republican-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/13\/senate-on-path-to-advance-foreign-aid-bill-despite-some-republican-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate on path to advance foreign aid bill despite some Republican opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Senate is on track to pass the $95 billion national security supplemental package to assist Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific after the upper chamber passed several major procedural votes on Monday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The supplemental package does not include any border provisions and several Republicans spent days \u2014 since Saturday \u2014 collectively filibustering the package on the Senate floor, which continued into Tuesday morning. The bill passed its final hurdle Monday night and the final vote could come anytime Tuesday, but no later than Wednesday, depending on how long Republicans can delay the vote.<\/p>\n

The bill still has no time agreement, meaning a formal agreement between Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., regarding the time allocated for debating the legislation or its amendments. Both leaders have been urging their party members to pass the package.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sen. Mike Lee, who spent four hours lambasting the bill on the floor on Saturday and continued his speeches overnight Monday, urged senators to reconsider voting for its passage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018We cannot send billions of dollars to Ukraine while America\u2019s own borders are bleeding,\u2019 Lee said on Saturday. \u2018This betrayal is all the more loathsome as it occurs at a time when the eyes of a nation are turned to sport, family and fun.\u2019<\/p>\n

By Monday, GOP senators were hoping for a breakthrough to get their amendments heard. Several amendments filed included hardline border security-related provisions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Me., vice chair of the appropriations committee, said on Monday morning that \u2018leadership on both sides of the aisle as well as the bill managers on both sides of the aisle have been working diligently night and day to try to get agreement to take consider debate and have votes on a series of amendments offered by senators on both sides of the aisle.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Obviously, in order for that to occur, we would need the cooperation of all members and we would need to have time agreements because the number of amendments is considerable,\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., a hawkish figure against continued aid to Ukraine, also spent significant time on the floor Monday prior to the vote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Senate Republican leadership, including the senators who voted to get on this bill, assured us it would be an open amendment process,\u2019 Paul told Fox News Digital on Monday. \u2018Mike Lee spent four hours trying to bring down amendments and the Democrats allowed zero of them. So yeah, I do believe that the Democrats have not been honest or forthright about allowing amendments.\u2019<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Schumer said on the floor that there would be a \u2018fair and reasonable amendment votes\u2019 on the floor \u2018if there\u2019s any possibility of speeding this process up.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, Republicans who are against passing the aid bill don\u2019t want the process to be sped up and argue they should be allowed to offer amendments even if they don\u2019t support the overall bill.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018And members on their side have actually said since we\u2019re not for the overall bill, we shouldn\u2019t even have the right to have amendments,\u2019 Paul said Monday night. \u2018So no, it\u2019s a terrible process and we\u2019re going to continue to fight them on this and talking filibusters are ongoing as we speak, and the talking filibuster will be going on as long as we have speakers into the night.\u2019<\/p>\n

Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., another dissenting vote for the foreign aid-only package, also told Fox News Digital on Monday night that \u2018they don\u2019t want amendments because they\u2019d be bad votes for some of the senators and the Democratic side of their elections coming up.\u2019 He explained the party is split on the issue of more aid to Ukraine.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The former football coach also offered an amendment to the package he said, which would \u2018pretty much close the border down\u2019 and \u2018doing the things at the border that we already have laws for.\u2019<\/p>\n

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, also introduced an amendment identical to the House\u2019s immigration bill, H.R.2, which would restore most Trump-era restrictions, hire additional border patrol officers and tighten asylum screenings.<\/p>\n

Republican Sens. Roger Marshall, JD Vance, and Josh Hawley were just a few other senators who spoke in opposition to the bill on Monday, continuing the filibuster. Meanwhile, GOP Sens. Mitt Romney and Thom Tillis were just a few who urged their colleagues to \u2018delay\u2019 no further and pass the package.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The package includes $60 billion for Ukraine, $14 billion for Israel, $9 billion in humanitarian assistance for Gaza and nearly $5 billion for the Indo-Pacific, including Taiwan. Democrats brought the package up for a vote after Republicans had blocked the $118 billion package that also included numerous border and immigration provisions last Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Republicans had previously said they would not approve funding for Ukraine unless the overwhelmed southern border was secured first. The GOP-led House said in a statement Monday they would not pass the Senate\u2019s foreign aid bill without border security provisions, and instead, would work on their own bill.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018House Republicans were crystal clear from the very beginning of discussions that any so-called national security supplemental legislation must recognize that national security begins at our own border,\u2019 Johnson said in a statement Monday evening, in part. \u2018The mandate of national security supplemental legislation was to secure America\u2019s own border before sending additional foreign aid around the world. It is what the American people demand and deserve. Now, in the absence of having received any single border policy change from the Senate, the House will have to continue to work its own will on these important matters. America deserves better than the Senate\u2019s status quo.\u2019<\/p>\n\n

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