Senate's $95 billion foreign aid bill heads for House Republican buzz saw
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Senate Democrats are celebrating a hard-fought win on Tuesday after passing a $95 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan that President Biden had requested for months, but House GOP leaders are signaling that the victory could be short-lived.
"Right now, the Senate is the birthplace of poor policy. The lack of serious border security measures in this foreign aid package shows how disconnected this bill is from reality," Republican Policy Committee Chairman Gary Palmer, R-Ala., the No. 5 House Republican, told Fox News Digital.
"The Senate has ignored the House of Representatives and the will of the American people this entire Congress. The American people… want the southern border secure."
Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., meanwhile, warned that the House would not simply "rubber stamp" whatever Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., presented and said any aid package "must secure our own borders" as well.
"Americans elected our majority with a mandate to get Biden’s border crisis under control, and we will not abandon that directive to rubber stamp a foreign aid package that the Schumer Senate rammed through overnight," Emmer told Fox News Digital.
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Twenty-two Senate Republicans joined all but three leftist lawmakers to pass the supplemental aid