Sen Roger Marshall rallies Republicans to add 'meaningful' border security to House's foreign aid package

Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, is one of several dissatisfied Republicans who voted against the multibillion-dollar national security supplemental package early Tuesday morning because it did not include any border security provisions.

Marshall now hopes House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., can finish what a handful of Senate Republicans hoped to achieve in the Democrat-controlled chamber: securing the southern border before aid is sent to overseas allies.

The Senate shot down a package that included border-related provisions early last week, saying it was "hardly" border security at all, and instead urged the Senate to take up the House's border policy, known as H.R. 2, which includes Trump-era restrictions and stricter screenings for asylum claims.

"I would love to see Speaker Johnson take H.R. 2 and add it to the bill that we passed," Marshall told Fox News Digital in an interview Tuesday. "I think that's something that a super majority of Republicans could support."

Marshall said he was not happy with the Senate's passage of some $60 billion to Ukraine because of several instances of inadequate auditing of funds, but he said he is "willing to trade that in return for meaningful border security" if the House decides to attach Ukraine aid to their bill.

Both Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., voted in favor of the foreign aid package.

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"Many of us are horribly disappointed there was no border security in this package," Marshall said. "It was a very closed process." Neither Republicans nor Democrats could reach an agreement on bringing several filed amendments to the floor for