Senate Advances Foreign Aid Package After Border Deal Fails

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The Facts

  • The US Senate voted 67-32 on Thursday in favor of a procedural motion to advance a stand-alone foreign aid supplemental bill just a day after the collapse of a bipartisan bill linking foreign aid to rigorous security measures at the southern border.

  • The $95.3B package to fund Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan comes as the broader measure, which had been privately negotiated for four months, failed to advance in a 49-50 vote — far from the 60 votes needed.

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The Spin

Democratic narrative

Republicans have now made clear that all their talk about securing the border is just an attempt to weaponize the issue for election purposes. Americans must be fully aware that Donald Trump and his fellow MAGA Republicans, rather than Joe Biden, are to blame for the failure of the toughest and fairest immigration reform proposed in decades.

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Republican narrative

Let alone that the so-called border deal would allocate three times more money for Ukraine than for the southern border, provisions allegedly intended to bolster security in the border were completely unacceptable. This fake border reform would, in fact, make the situation worse as Biden's lenient policies would become law.

American Conservative

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