Dem Demographic Implications of the Procedural Vote to Add Border Security to the White House Report on Democratic Democrat Support for a Plan B

After months of stalling an international aid package for Ukraine and Israel in favor of tougher border policy, top Republicans are calling for a standalone international aid package because they now oppose the addition of stricter border policy they demanded.

A bipartisan Senate package that paired border security measures with assistance to Israel and Ukraine appeared all but dead Tuesday, after Republicans backed away from the deal amid growing criticism from the right.

“We are trying to figure out what to do next,” Lankford told reporters in the Capitol. “People are saying, Hey, we need a lot more time to go through this.”

“Republicans have to decide who do they serve: Donald Trump or the American people?” Biden posed in a speech at the White House. Are they here to solve problems or weaponize them for political purposes?

“Every day between now and November, the American are going to know that the only reason the border is not secure is Donald Trump and his MAGA Republican friends,” Biden said.

Murphy suggested Wednesday’s procedural vote would likely mark the end of a bipartisan effort to address the border, saying about Republicans, “They walked away from the old plan, they’ll walk away from a new plan.”

The senators from both parties are thinking about going back to the plan that was in place last year to try to get funding for Ukraine, Israel and humanitarian aid.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he will move to a “Plan B” to move aid to Ukraine and Israel after a procedural vote to advance a bipartisan border security package fails, as expected.

“Senators are elected to vote, not to be afraid, run away, make excuses when it comes to voting on the tough issues,” Schumer said on the Senate floor. There is no need to take a position tomorrow. The only thing that would allow us for the Senate to consider, discuss, and debate the important issues before us now is a yes vote.

Even if the bill were to advance through the Senate, it faced even longer odds in the House. Speaker Johnson said the Republicans can’t vote for the bill because it doesn’t do enough to secure the border, and that Biden already has legal authority to address the surge of migrants.

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was forced to remove $3oo million of aid to Ukraine from a larger defense bill in the fall in order to win over a handful of GOP holdouts. An amendment to the defense bill that would prevent security assistance to Ukraine was supported by ninety-three Republicans.

Johnson said Tuesday that efforts to help Ukraine “have not been abandoned. The Pentagon has warned that Ukrainian forces are running out of ammunition and other resources now that U.S. funding has lapsed.

In lieu of the larger package, House Republicans will bring forward a bill to provide military assistance to Israel. But that proposal seems unlikely to pass.

Republicans were forced to hide a Rules Committee hearing on the bill that could have exposed anger among far-right conservatives. Rules are supposed to sign off on legislation and the full House has to agree on it to get a simple majority vote.

Johnson brought the bill to the floor under suspension of House rules that would allow for a two-thirds vote to pass but already Democratic leaders and members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus say they won’t vote for it.

The House Democratic leadership felt the standalone proposal was a blatant attempt to undermine the bipartisan deal in the Senate. The bill did not have financial offsets, which was criticized by the House Freedom Caucus.

As the legislative efforts appeared to falter, so too did an entirely partisan effort by House Republicans to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Several House GOP members expressed doubt about impeachment, leaving leaders hours to try to rally support in order to avoid an embarrassing vote planned for Tuesday evening.

Schumer blamed Trump for congressional Republicans who came out against a deal after four months of arguing for security changes at the border.

A resolution to impeach Secretary Aleyandro Mayorkas and a bill giving 18 billion for Israel failed on Wednesday, and so did the speaker.

Schumer is a No-Go Theorem: Help for Humanitarians in Conflict Zones from the Biden Administration’s Border Policy

He hoped that they would agree to debate the border deal, but had devised a back up plan which would give billions of dollars toUkrainian,Israeli andhumanitarian assistance for civilians in conflict zones.

Schumer was against Republicans who demanded that aid be linked to changes in the Biden Administration’s border policies, but he dropped his opposition to a bipartisan proposal that top GOP senators were involved in crafting.