Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer wrote in a letter to his Democratic colleagues that he will bring a national security package to the floor that ties together Israel and Ukraine funding as soon as next week.
“Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) vowed in a letter to his colleagues to bring a bill to the Senate floor as soon as December 4th to fund military aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.
‘One of the most important tasks we must finish is taking up and passing a funding bill to ensure we as well as our friends and partners in Ukraine, Israel, and the Indo-Pacific region have the necessary military capabilities to confront and deter our adversaries and competitors’. Schumer said. ‘That’s why I intend to bring the President’s national security supplemental package to the floor as soon as the week of December 4th’.
Schumer blamed Republicans for the delay in the passage of the $105 billion behemoth, which was formally requested on October 20th. He said the biggest holdup ‘is the insistence by our Republican colleagues on partisan border policy as a condition for vital Ukraine aid’”. -Dave DeCamp, Antiwar
Although Chuck Schumer may assert that the United States can maintain its support and defense of Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan against its adversaries in Russia, Iran, and China, being able to effectively allocate U.S. military resources between Ukraine, the Middle East, and the Indo-Pacific to balance competing demands will prove increasingly difficult as the Jewish nation’s conflict with Hamas threatens to expand beyond Israel and Gaza and America is forced to grapple with outbreaks of fighting on multiple international fronts.