McConnell and Schumer stay united on supplemental push amid bipartisan defections

Published January 21, 2024 6:00am ET



Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) are putting on a united front to pass the defense supplemental spending bill.

A bipartisan working group of senators has spent more than a month negotiating a border security deal, which would be added to a defense spending bill that includes aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. Negotiators on both sides have acknowledged that the border measure is critical to passing the legislation through both chambers.

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