US Senate rejects billion-dollar package for migration and foreign aid. Republicans blocked the package.
The draft will be “dead on arrival,” said Republican Chairman of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson. Second vote on foreign aid announced Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced a quick second vote on a modified package that would focus only onforeign aid. The former Republican US President Donald Trump, who will most likely run against incumbent Joe Biden in the election next November, had spoken out clearly against it in advance.