Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told colleagues the Senate will be back in session Monday.
As the House adjourned Thursday for Christmas recess with plans to return in the new year, the Senate decided to delay its holiday break and return next week to hammer out a deal on immigration and aid to Ukraine and Israel.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that shift on the floor Thursday afternoon, one day after immigration negotiators expressed some signs of optimism in reaching a deal.
“Over the last few days, negotiations on a path forward to getting the national security supplemental done have made good progress. As I have said, if we believe something is important and urgent we should stay and get the job done,” Schumer said. “That is certainly the case with the supplemental. It is important. It is urgent.”
A tale of two majorities
Well… there goes Ukraine…
It would be good news for Ukraine. It will be bad news for immigrants, as most of our families were at some point.
republiQans are holding Ukraine hostage to screw over immigrants. I say this with 0% hope that anything reasonable, workable, moral, or not-insanely-expensive is in their plans.
Ukrainian aid from the US, for now. Some European countries have stepped up their commitments, despite some prior trouble meeting delivery goals, and hopefully that will be enough to tide them over until we can unfuck this situation.
Bring in the 2012 comprehensive immigration bill to the floor and shut up these traitors once and for all
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that shift on the floor Thursday afternoon, one day after immigration negotiators expressed some signs of optimism in reaching a deal.
Senate Republicans say an immigration deal is crucial to unlocking their votes for passage of U.S. aid to Ukraine and Israel, which is a high priority for President Joe Biden.
We’ll still definitely be working," Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., the GOP’s lead negotiator, said on Thursday afternoon just before the Senate left for the weekend.
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., the chief Democratic negotiator, said: “We’re gonna obviously work through the weekend and hope to keep capitalizing on progress.”
With the lower chamber expected to return on Jan. 9, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., took aim at the Senate on his way out.
“As President Biden works hard to make American families safer every day, congressional Republicans are actively undermining our national security interests — both domestically and the world — because they’d rather go on vacation than do their jobs,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in a memo.
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