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Senate Blocks Border-Ukraine Deal, Moves to Consider Plan B

The second bill includes $60 billion in assistance for Ukraine and $14.1 billion for Israel.
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Senate Blocks Border-Ukraine Deal, Moves to Consider Plan B
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Jackson Richman
Joseph Lord
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A controversial foreign assistance package that includes border security measures failed to pass a procedural vote in the Senate on Feb. 7.

The bill failed to garner the 60 votes needed to begin debate, with 50 senators voting against its advancement and 49 voting in the affirmative.

Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
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