Sen. asked. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., Ron Price, CCO of the PGA Tour, and Jimmy Dunne, PGA board member, during the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing titled “The PGA-LIV Deal: Implications for on The Future of Golf and Saudi Arabia’s Influence on the United States,” at the Hart Building on Tuesday, July 11, 2023.
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A standalone military aid package for Israel, with no cuts to offset it, is on the table, a Republican senator said Monday. But first, Congress and the White House must reach an agreement to strengthen US border security.
“I don’t care how we pay for it,” said Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., about Israel’s aid in an appearance on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”
“I also want to consider standalone legislation to just support Israel without pay, I think it’s a very high priority,” said Marshall, a member of the Senate Budget and Homeland Security Committees.
But he said funding Israel’s war against Hamas is only one piece of a complex puzzle, where Senate Republicans want a bipartisan border security package that gives the president the power to close the border, in exchange for serious consideration. -for a White House request for emergency foreign aid. in Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan.
“The rest of the puzzle can’t be solved unless we have meaningful border security,” Marshall said.
“If that puzzle can’t be solved, Republicans will vote for any kind of cloture for the other three pieces of this puzzle, for Ukraine, for Taiwan, as well as for funding for Israel.”
The Senate hopes to finalize this agreement by the end of the year, said a top Republican negotiator, Sen. James Lankford, Okla., last weekend.
But this timeline could be disastrous for Ukraine, the White House warned on Monday.
Unless Congress acts, the US will run out of money to supply Ukraine with more weapons and equipment by the end of the year, Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young wrote in a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.
Shutting off the flow of resources to Ukraine would “bring to its knees” its military efforts, threatening Kyiv’s battlefield gains and increasing the likelihood of Russian military success, Young wrote.
“If Ukraine’s economy collapses, they won’t be able to continue fighting, full stop,” Young wrote.
“We’re out of money – and almost out of time.”
Johnson responded Monday that the White House has failed to address House Republicans’ concerns about additional funding to Ukraine while “continuing to ignore the disaster on our own border.”
“House Republicans have decided that any additional national security package must begin at our own border. We believe that both issues can be reconciled if Senate Democrats and the White House negotiate reasonably,” Johnson told X.
