Washington- Iowa senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst have joined their GOP colleagues in a procedural vote that has blocked a bill to provide aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan.
Radio Iowa reports that the bill would also provide border security measures, but Ernst says that’s not enough.
“We actually need to change the border policy,” Ernst says. “The policies that are in place right now are actually not addressing the migrant flow that is coming in.”
Ernst says the bill is an acknowledgment by the Biden Administration that there’s a border crisis.
“They are the ones that wrote the package and it addresses funding for the border, it addresses funding for Ukraine, for Israel and the Indo-Pacific,” Ernst says. “They tied all four of those things together.”
President Biden says that he is willing to make significant compromises on border security if that’s what it takes to get the $110 billion package through Congress. US military aid for Ukraine will run out by the end of the year and The President warns that if Russia takes Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin won’t stop there.
