Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., vowed on Friday to push ahead with a foreign aid bill $95 billion for Ukraine, Israel, Gaza humanitarian efforts, and Taiwan without any provisions for U.S. border security.
“The Senate will keep working on this bill until the job is done,” Schumer said on the Senate floor.
The legislation up for consideration no longer contains the language of the bipartisan border security deal that was reached after it was shot down during a procedural vote earlier this week. The no votes came mostly from Senate Republicans who opposed parts of the deal, arguing it wouldn’t do enough to reduce illegal crossings at the southern border.