Stalled Border Security Talks Slow Action on Supplemental Aid Package

December 4, 2023

Bipartisan Senate negotiations on border security broke down Friday night, another obstacle for the White House’s $105 billion supplemental spending request to send aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, as Punchbowl News detailed this morning.

Republicans are insisting that the package include measures to enhance security at the U.S.-Mexico border, but Senate negotiators can’t agree on what those measures are. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will accept nothing less than the language included in HR 2, the hardline conservative immigration bill the House passed last year, Punchbowl reported.

The White House warned Congress this morning that if it doesn’t act by the end of the year, the administration will run out of money to support Ukraine, The Hill reported.

Reps. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) and Chrissy Houlahan (D-Penn.) said Friday during a Hudson Institute event that there are those in both parties who are skeptical of further Ukraine aid.

“I think the people who are not necessarily supportive are the people who tend to be, understandably, focused on making sure that the United States is taken care of,” Houlahan said, adding “you can’t be taken care of if you’re being owned by somebody else.”

Oklahoma National Guard photo by Sgt. Reece Heck

December 4, 2023

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