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A bill that would send $14.1 billion in military aid to Israel, as well as $61 billion to Ukraine and another $8 billion to Taiwan, cleared one of many procedural hurdles in the Senate on Friday. The package also includes $9.2 billion in humanitarian assistance to Gaza.
The $95.3 billion aid package is being proposed after the Republicans blew up a bipartisan border bill they claimed they wanted, which contained most of the funding being considered.
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said that he would allow amendments to the aid package but that he would keep the Senate in session “until the job is done.”
Senator Rand Paul and a few other Republicans are going to want to use the amendment process to weaken or even destroy the package. Schumer knows this, which is why he will likely limit the number of amendments that can be offered.
Central to the package has always been the military aid for Ukraine, whose President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has personally visited Congress to plead for help, including in a whirlwind trip last December, as he tries to preserve his country.
