Working into its scheduled recess, the Senate voted Sunday for the third time in the past week to advance funding for Ukraine and Israel despite strong opposition from conservative Republicans who balked at the package not including a House-passed bill to tighten the southern border and questioned the end game for the war in Ukraine. … Read More
The foreign aid supplemental spending package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan now stands between the Senate and a two-week President’s Day recess. Yesterday, the Senate cleared a critical hurdle toward passing the $95 billion national security-focused bill aimed at fortifying Ukraine, Israel and other allies, voting to move to debate an issue that has divided… Read More
The Senate just voted to advance a $95 billion emergency security spending bill with $60 billion to support the war in Ukraine, but without a bipartisan border security bill that ran into stiff opposition from Republicans. The vote was 67-32 to advance a legislative vehicle that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) says will… Read More
After a day of chaos that saw House Republican leadership lose two embarrassing votes on the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas, and a stand alone bill for aid to Israel, plus a federal appeals court rejecting former President Donald J. Trump’s claim that he was immune from prosecution on charges of plotting… Read More
Senate Republicans, under heavy pressure from former President Donald Trump, will block a procedural motion to begin debate on the bipartisan border security deal this week, leaving funding for the war in Ukraine in limbo for the foreseeable future. A failure to advance the border security deal this week would signal the legislation is unlikely… Read More
Senate negotiators unveiled their long-awaited bipartisan border deal (TEXT) Sunday night and it was met with immediate blowback. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) declared the measure “even worse than we expected” and predicted it is dead on arrival in the House, while conservative Republicans in the Senate slammed the measure and vowed to defeat it. … Read More
Moderate House Republicans from New York sent a warning shot to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) on Tuesday, coming very close to blocking legislative action on the House floor in protest of the bipartisan, bicameral tax deal (TEXT; JCT MEMO) not including an increase in the state and local tax deduction (SALT). Taking a page out… Read More
Senate negotiators have indicated they will shortly release the text on a national security spending bill they hope can simultaneously fund Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan and offer legislative solutions to slow the surge of migrants at the southern border. Yet fresh criticism Monday from former President Donald Trump and other Republican leaders threatened to derail… Read More
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) on Wednesday floated the possibility to Senate Republicans of splitting Ukraine funding from border security reforms that are coming under heavy opposition from Senate conservatives. McConnell reportedly acknowledged to Republican senators at a Wednesday afternoon meeting that the politics of U.S. border security have turned out to be a… Read More
While negotiations continue on the final text for the bipartisan deal on border security measures that are designed to shake loose a multi-billion-dollar aid package for Ukraine and Israel, the Senate is expected to continue voting on nominations today. The Senate will take up the nomination of Jacquelyn D. Austin to be United States District… Read More
