Tackling the Biden administration’s national supplemental funding request is at the top of the agenda as the Senate returns from Thanksgiving recess this week, but it may prove to be a difficult feat for GOP lawmakers in the upper chamber who are trying to strike a deal on including tighter border security provisions.
Disagreement over tying Israel and Ukraine funding together also persists, as GOP lawmakers who have grown skeptical of aid to Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion last year are more in favor of pausing aid to the Eastern European country.
Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, one of the lead lawmakers striving to split up Israel and Ukraine aid, told Fox News Digital that funding for Israel and stronger border security measures, like stricter asylum standards and more border patrol agents, should go hand in hand.
“What we need is Republican leadership to stand up and say, ‘Hell no, we will not vote cloture on anything that doesn’t include meaningful border security,'” Marshall told Fox News Digital in an interview Monday.
But Marshall said he’s not budging. The U.S. government already sent more than $100 billion to Ukraine, and “they’re making no progress,” he said.
“Every three days they try to shove Ukraine down our throat, and I don’t get it,” he said. “Everything that could be said has been said about it. We’re not dumb. This is not a rocket science deal going on in Ukraine. I’m almost insulted they keep trying to just say the same thing over and over, louder and louder like it’s going to change my mind.”
Jamie Joseph is a U.S. Politics reporter for Fox News Digital covering transgender and culture issues, the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services, and stateside legislative developments.
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