The White House’s $106 billion national security supplemental request faces an uncertain legislative path forward amid ongoing turmoil in the House and interest among some Republicans in breaking the package into stand-alone pieces for passage.
The long-anticipated proposal, which includes funding for Israel, Ukraine, the Indo-Pacific and the southern border, faced pushback from a group of Senate Republicans even before its official unveiling Friday as lawmakers advocated for spinning out the $61.4 billion sought to aid Kyiv into a separate bill.
And the resistance continued Friday as a handful of House GOP members, fresh off of another unsuccessful attempt to elect a speaker on the chamber’s floor, echoed their own individual support for decoupling Ukraine assistance from the $14.3 billion the Biden administration wants to send to Israel in the wake of a surprise terrorist attack perpetrated by Hamas.
