Majority Chief Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., informed Senate Democrats he plans to drive a vote on an Israel and Ukraine support bundle stripped of border safety provisions Wednesday after Republicans made clear they might block a transfer to take up the entire bipartisan border security and foreign aid bill within the afternoon, a Senate Democratic aide informed NBC Information.
If it will get the 60-votes wanted for adoption, the procedural movement Wednesday afternoon would tee up a vote later this week on whether or not to take up the legislative automobile for the supplemental support bundle, which incorporates support to the warring nations and Taiwan.
The second vote, on taking on a movement to proceed to the narrower support bundle, is probably going occur quickly after the primary procedural vote on the broader border and support invoice this afternoon, the Senate aide informed NBC Information.
Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who supported the bipartisan border safety invoice {that a} group of Republican senators negotiated with Democrats, expressed assist for a vote on the supplemental support invoice with out the border provisions throughout a management press convention Tuesday.
“There are different components of this supplemental they’re extraordinarily necessary as properly — Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan,” McConnell stated. “We nonetheless, in my opinion, must deal with the remainder of it as a result of it’s necessary. Not that the border isn’t necessary, however we will’t get an final result. In order that’s the place I feel we ought to go, and it’s as much as Senator Schumer to determine the way to repackage this, if in actual fact we don’t go on to it.”
The second model of the invoice will nonetheless embody provisions focusing on fentanyl trafficking, the Democratic aide stated.