Tens of billions of dollars of funding for Ukraine remains gridlocked in the Senate as Democrats and Republicans are at a standstill over which border security measures to attach to the supplemental bill.
Democratic senators revolted after Republicans debuted a lengthy proposal Monday that they described as a policy solution to the Biden administration’s illegal immigration crisis and the way that Democrats would get enough votes to pass the emergency funding bill.
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“Yesterday, a group of Senate Republicans released a proposal for border security that they want in exchange for Ukraine funding,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in a floor speech Tuesday. “They know full well what they came up with is a total nonstarter.”
Democrats, as well as immigrant advocacy groups, have revolted at the GOP’s proposals to finish border wall projects and limit …