Senate Democrats, imminently facing a vote to send tens of billions of dollars in military aid to Israel, shrugged off any discussion of adding conditions to those funds. That’s the White House’s job, lawmakers told NOTUS.
Several Democratic senators who have been openly critical of Israel’s conduct in its war in Gaza say the risk of not passing the overarching foreign aid bill is too high for them to add conditions or amendments to the current package.
“I’m not interested in sending this bill back to the House of Representatives,” Sen. Chris Murphy said. “There’s gonna be a lot of amendments on their merits that I would consider, but the priority is getting this bill done.”