U.S. House passes bill to provide $40B in new aid to Ukraine in 368-57 vote; the funding measure now heads to the Senate.
aid without the Covid relief funding. His decision to decouple the two spending packages is likely to make it harder to pass the Covid relief, which the administration has said is needed to continue to provide widespread testing and free vaccinations.
Asked Tuesday about the jammed-up Covid aid, McConnell said it should be discussed in tandem with the administration's effort to lift immigration restrictions, known as Title 42, that former President Donald Trump imposed in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. Some Democrats have pushed for allowing Title 42 to expire, which would allow more migrants into the country. Republicans, while pushing for other Covid-related restrictions to be relaxed, have remained steadfast in insisting that the immigration rules remain.
“It’s something we’re going to continue to discuss, and as you know there’s a broad bipartisan demand for continuing Title 42, and I think that’s the context in which that vote ought to occur,” McConnell said. The Senate has not scheduled a vote on the Ukraine package. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., tweeted earlier Tuesday that the chamber"will move swiftly to pass emergency funding and send it" to Biden's desk.
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