Majority Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On The Urgent Need To Pass The National Security Supplemental Aid Package

Washington, D.C. –  Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor on the urgent need for the Senate to pass the national security supplemental aid package and send it to the President’s desk. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:

The Senate convenes at a moment nearly six months in the making.

A few days ago, the House of Representatives at long last approved essential national security funding for Ukraine, for Israel, for the Indo-Pacific, and for humanitarian assistance.

Today it is the Senate’s turn to act.

For the information of Senators: at one o’clock this afternoon, the Senate will hold two roll call votes related to the supplemental—one on a procedural motion and then a vote to invoke cloture.

The time has come to finish the job to help our friends abroad once and for all.

I ask my colleagues to join together to pass the supplemental today as expeditiously as possible, send our friends abroad the aid they have long been waiting for.

Let us not delay this. Let us not prolong this. Let us not keep out friends around the world waiting for a moment longer.

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