Senate Republicans are abandoning a plan to attach a border amendment to their continuing resolution after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) pivoted to a new plan to put a clean funding stop-gap bill on the floor to keep the government open for 45 days.
A group of mostly Republican senators and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema were working on an amendment that would deliver billions in border security funding in an effort to appease House Republicans. The amendment is now dead after there was not enough support to proceed in the Senate.
Senators will meet to vote on their version of the continuing resolution Saturday afternoon. The legislation would provide nearly $6 billion in aid to Ukraine between funding between the Defense Department and the State Department. It also included nearly $6 billion in disaster relief. Tillis, who is a major proponent of aid to Ukraine, said he'd be willing to consider a clear continuing resolution without that funding.
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