Schumer looks to expedite $95 billion Israel, Ukraine aid package through Senate

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is looking to quickly walk a $95 cardinal package pinch aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan astir six months aft President Biden made his petition for further assistance successful October 2023.

"Now it’s nan Senate’s turn, and nan decorativeness statement is now successful sight," Schumer said successful a connection pursuing nan House's transition of abstracted assistance bills for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. As portion of nan package, it besides passed a measurement requiring nan app TikTok to divest from Chinese-owned ByteDance, arsenic good arsenic a measurement called nan REPO Act, which would let $5 cardinal successful Russian assets held successful U.S. banks to beryllium transferred to Ukraine.

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Schumer is looking to walk nan package quickly. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite/File)

The House passed nan measures connected Saturday, much than 2 months aft nan Senate passed a different type of nan overseas assistance package. 

With this extremity of swift Senate transition successful mind, Schumer didn't hold until nan House had approved nan package earlier he began moving connected it.

"A fewer moments ago, Democrats and Republicans locked successful an statement enabling nan Senate to decorativeness activity connected nan supplemental pinch nan first ballot connected Tuesday afternoon," nan mostly leader previewed successful his statement. 

The Senate was not capable to walk nan Section 702 FISA renewal earlier its Friday deadline, contempt nan support of some statement leaders, Chuck Schumer, right, and Mitch McConnell. (Getty Images)

"The task earlier america is urgent. It is erstwhile again nan Senate’s move to make history," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said successful his ain connection astir nan request to walk nan aid. 

But arsenic Schumer hopes to expedite nan assistance bills, discontent connected some sides of nan aisle threatens to upend his timeline.

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According to a root familiar, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is starring a push to array nan alleged "amendment tree," which would forestall Schumer from predetermining which amendments would beryllium considered. Instead, it would let senators to return their amendments to nan enclosure level successful regular order. In Senate terms, "filling nan amendment tree" refers to a process by which a definite number and type of amendments are offered nether Senate precedents. Once these amendments are offered and nan "tree is filled," nary different amendments are allowed.

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah (Bill Clark/File)

One of nan amendments Lee wants to spot implemented successful nan package is simply a proviso requiring Ukraine to repay nan aid, immoderate of which would beryllium granted successful nan shape of a loan, which would beryllium eligible to beryllium forgiven nether nan House-passed measure.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is supportive of this effort, signaling imaginable bipartisan backing, nan root said. Sanders dislikes nan package for his ain reasons and plans to connection his ain amendments to it.

Sanders' 2 amendments see 1 to extremity "unfettered subject assistance to Netanyahu’s warfare machine" and different that would reconstruct backing to nan United Nations Relief and Works Agency "so that children successful Gaza don’t starve."

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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana/File)

If nan senators are successful successful preventing nan amendment character being filled by Schumer, preventing information of different amendments, nan voting process would beryllium lengthened. And if immoderate amendments were to pass, nan bills would request to beryllium reconsidered by nan House.

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It's unclear what level of support they person garnered for this effort. It would return a elemental mostly of 51 votes to array nan amendment tree. 

Despite this guidance to nan existent package, a elder GOP Senate root told Fox News Digital that nan erstwhile assistance package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan passed pinch 70 votes. Only 29 voted against it. And while definite changes person been made, nan root said nan bills are apt to move quickly arsenic Schumer intends.