A group of moderate Democratic and Republican congressmen from the House of Representatives presented this Friday a bill that would provide emergency funds for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, and also aimed at strengthening border security.
The measure comes after the Republican majority in the Lower House and the Republican leadership in the Senate turned their backs on an agreement for border security, which contained aid to foreign countries, after negotiators from both parties reached an agreement
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Migrants walk along the border between Mexico and the United States on January 3, 2024 at Jacumba Hot Springs, in San Diego, California.Getty Images
Former President Donald Trump openly spoke out against the measure.
In their efforts to advance the foreign aid package, the Senate earlier this week approved a round of money for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, which did not include funds for the border, but Republican members of Congress considered the measure dead in the House Low.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana,
declined to bring the measure to the floor for consideration
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Brian Fitzpatrick, Republican of Pennsylvania, who declared that he would have voted in favor of the bill approved by the Senate, which included $95 billion, but acknowledged the obstacles Johnson faces in the House.
The new proposal aims to break the stalemate over aid to Ukraine in its war against the Russian invasion – at a time when Kiev's forces are running out of supplies – by marrying it with tougher measures regarding security in the border, sued by the conservatives of the Lower House and the president of the majority, Mike Johnson, who refused to vote on the law approved by the Senate.
"That's why we're introducing this new bill. It's the only bipartisan bill on the border and Ukraine in the [Lower] House," Fitzpatrick said, quoted by The Hill.
Analysts consider that the measure has no chance of being approved in either chamber.
The bill has virtually no chance of passing in either chamber.
Conservatives will most likely disagree with many of the border security measures that were included in a GOP bill passed by the House of Representatives, known as HR 2.
For their part, Democrats will oppose both the policy of migrants
"remaining in Mexico"
and the fact that humanitarian aid is not included for Gaza, Ukraine and other global conflict hotspots.
The bipartisan group that prepared the proposal includes Fitzpatrick and Reps. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) and two other Democrats who Bacon declined in conversation with the news outlet Politico.