THE BORDER SECURITY BARRIER: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has announced he hopes to hold a vote on President Joe Biden’s $105 billion emergency supplemental budget request a week from today. The request, sent to Congress a month ago, includes $61.4 billion in military and economic aid for Ukraine, $14.3 billion in military assistance for Israel, and $4 billion for Taiwan and Indo-Pacific partners.
“I intend to bring the president’s national security supplemental package to the floor as soon as the week of December 4th,” Schumer said in a Dear Colleague letter yesterday, in which he outlined several other goals for the end-of-the-year session, including passing the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act and confronting what he called Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-AL) “reckless and brazen hold on military promotions.”
