Younger and more ideologically hardline conservative senators opposed the national security supplemental package with $60 billion for Ukraine but no funding for the migrant crisis.
Younger Senate Republicans ripped GOP leadership after the Senate passed a $95 billion foreign aid bill without addressing the migrant crisis at the southern border.
Early Tuesday morning, the Senate voted 70 to 29 in favor of President Biden’s requested supplemental package to provide aid for Ukraine, Israel, Gaza and the Indo-Pacific. The bill passed after weeks of contentious debate during which bipartisan negotiators proposed a deal on border security funding that was rejected by conservatives and declared dead on arrival in the House of Representatives.
“This morning the America last caucus got a $61 billion aid package out of the Senate. But they paid dearly for this small win. The House won’t pass the current bill,” Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, posted on X after the supplemental package passed.
“We must fix our country before devoting more resources to Ukraine,” Vance added in a summary statement of the complaint from the 22 Republicans who voted against the package.
The U.S. has already spent more than $100 billion in aid for Ukraine since its war against Russia began in Feb. 2022.
The funding bill passed Tuesday morning includes $60 billion for Ukraine, $14 billion for Israel, $9 billion in humanitarian assistance for Gaza and nearly $5 billion for the Indo-Pacific. Democrats brought the package up for a vote after Republicans had blocked a previous $118 billion package that included numerous bipartisan border and immigration provisions.
