House Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday warned that the Senate may not vote on a massive foreign aid bill being considered because it lacks border security, warning that the House is “on its own terms” on the issue. We will work on it.”
The bill, which would provide $95 billion in aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, passed three procedural voting hurdles in the Senate on Monday night, but Republican-led efforts to slow the bill’s progress. A final vote on the package has been postponed until likely early Tuesday. morning.
The Senate’s effort on the bill, which would allow Washington’s senators to keep their jobs during Super Bowl weekend and a two-week recess scheduled to begin Monday, has been cut short because the bill does not include related provisions. , all could be wasted. Border security as deemed necessary by the Speaker of the House.
“House Republicans have been clear from the beginning of debate that the so-called national security supplement bill must recognize that national security begins at the border,” Johnson (R-Louisiana) said in a statement. ” he said. “Ten months ago, the House took action to help enact transformative policy changes by passing the Border Security Act, but the Senate has failed to have that moment since then, including today.”
The House speaker went on to discuss negotiations between Biden administration officials and a bipartisan group of senators aimed at linking funding to war-torn Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan with increased border security and changes to U.S. asylum. He praised the Senate for rejecting the bill that was negotiated last week. The law, he argued, was “insufficient.”
“[I]We should not have gone back to square one to amend the current bill to include real border security provisions that would actually help end the ongoing disaster,” Johnson argued. “Instead, the Senate’s foreign aid bill is silent on the most pressing issues facing our country.”
“The mission of the National Security Supplemental Act was to secure America’s own borders before sending additional foreign aid around the world, which the American people demand and deserve,” Johnson continued. Ta. “With no changes to border policy currently coming from the Senate, the House will have to continue to work on these important issues on its own.”
