Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) fired a warning shot on the Senate’s overseas help package deal Monday night time, criticizing the $95.3 billion supplemental because the higher chamber inches nearer to a remaining vote on the laws.
In an announcement, Johnson slammed the package deal for excluding border safety provisions — ”the Senate’s overseas help invoice is silent on probably the most urgent subject dealing with our nation” — and steered that he won’t deliver it to the ground for a vote if it clears the higher chamber.
“[In] the absence of getting acquired any single border coverage change from the Senate, the Home must proceed to work its personal will on these essential issues,” Johnson wrote. “America deserves higher than the Senate’s establishment.”
The criticism from Johnson got here minutes earlier than the Senate was set to kick off one other sequence of votes on advancing the overseas help supplemental, which incorporates funding for Ukraine, Israel and Indo-Pacific allies.
The package deal cleared its third procedural hurdle on Sunday and could possibly be despatched to the decrease chamber for consideration as quickly as Tuesday.
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