The U.S. Senate overnight passed critical bipartisan legislation providing military aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, and humanitarian aid to Gaza, in a strong 70-29 vote, including 22 Republicans despite Donald Trump’s opposition to the bill. Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson quickly made clear the bill will never see the light of day on the House floor.
The bipartisan bill was crafted after Senate Republicans, also at Trump’s direction, killed the previous bipartisan bill, which included the military aid provisions, billions for the border, and had the support of both the Democratic Majority Leader and Republican Minority Leader, not to mention the U.S. Border Patrol union.
Johnson, even before the final vote on the military aid bill concluded, issued a statement rejecting the Senate legislation. Aware that Trump directed the military aid and border bill, he wrote, “in the absence of having received any single border policy change from the Senate, the House will have to continue to work its own bill on these important matters.”
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U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT), the Democratic lead on the Senate’s now-dead military aid and border legislation, blasted Speaker Johnson. He angrily wrote on X, “the speaker said he wouldn’t pass ukraine funding without a border deal and we got a deal and then he killed the deal because he said we didn’t need a deal and now he says he won’t pass our ukraine funding bill bc it doesn’t include a border deal.”
Murphy concluded, “honestly wtf.”
Former senior Trump advisor Stephen Miller, who was the architect of Trump’s “zero tolerance” child separation policy that stripped thousands of children from their parents and even from their own siblings, responded to Senator Murphy.
Miller, who has been called a conspiracy theorist, a white nationalist, and a white supremacist and appears on the Southern Poverty Law Center‘s list of anti-immigrant extremists, told the Connecticut Democrat, “No. He didn’t say we needed a ‘deal’ (to give illegals citizenship no less). He said we needed to secure the border — i.e. stop Biden’s mass releases and instead mass deport illegals. This isn’t complicated.”
The now-dead Senate border bill does not provide citizenship.
On Saturday, Donald Trump vowed he would conduct “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history,” if elected president.
Miller, according to Vanity Fair, “is reportedly leading an effort with John McEntee to install loyalist attorneys all throughout the federal bureaucracy in the event of Trump’s win.”
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