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12 Feb 2024
Joe Cunningham


NextImg:House Speaker Mike Johnson Kills Senate Supplemental Ukraine Aid Bill

In a rare bipartisan move, Senate Republicans and Democrats worked together to push through a supplemental foreign aid bill that would send even more money (with virtually strings attached) to Ukraine.

While conservatives in the Senate blasted the bill, their hopes were on the House killing it before it could be brought up to a vote. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky gave a fiery speech on the floor about the issue on Monday afternoon.

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In a statement released on Monday night, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced that the bill was dead in the House, and that the lower chamber would "have to continue to work its own" regarding what conservatives see as the bigger issue - the southern border.

"House Republicans were crystal clear from the very beginning of discussions that any so-called national security supplemental legislation must recognize that national security begins at our own border," Johnson said in his statement. "The House acted ten months ago to help enact transformative policy change by passing the Secure Our Border Act, and since then, including today, the Senate has failed to meet the moment."

"The Senate did the right thing last week by rejecting the Ukraine-Taiwan-Gaza-Israel-Immigration legislation due to its insufficient border provisions, and it should have gone back to the drawing board to amend the current bill to include real border security provisions that would actually help end the ongoing catastrophe," he continued. "Instead, the Senate's foreign aid bill is silent on the most pressing issue facing our country."

As of now, House Republicans are set on focusing on the crisis at the border instead of foreign aid, arguing that securing the U.S. border is more important than U.S. funds securing the borders of other nations.

"The mandate of national security supplemental legislation was to secure America's own border before sending additional foreign aid around the world. It is what the American people demand and deserve," Johnson said. "Now, in the absence of having received any single border policy change from the Senate, the House will have to continue to work its own will on these important matters. America deserves better than the Senate's status quo."

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The announcement effectively kills the Senate supplemental bill before it even reaches the House floor.