Senate votes to work on aid to Ukraine, Israel, and others

The U.S. Senate voted 67-32 on Thursday to work on a bill to supply roughly $95 billion to several foreign governments. The day before, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., had failed to secure the 60 votes necessary to begin work on a $118 billion national security supplemental, which provided aid to Ukraine and Israel while also increasing funding for the United States’ southern border.

What does this mean? If the Senate succeeds in pushing through a bill to supply aid to Ukraine and Israel without any sort of increase in border security, the bill would face an uncertain future in the House. The House failed to pass a bill earlier this week that would have provided roughly $17.6 billion in aid to Israel. House Republicans had previously promised to reject the Senate’s $118 billion national security supplemental.

Dig deeper: Read Leo Briceno’s report in The Stew about House Speaker Mike Johnson’s recent losses in the House.