“Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer wants to pass the $95 billion foreign aid package before sending senators home and on Codels for what was scheduled to be the two-week Presidents Day recess,” Punchbowl News reports.
“That means Friday, Saturday and, yes, Super Bowl Sunday sessions. Buckle up!”
“Seventeen Republican senators — less than half the GOP Conference — crossed the aisle and voted with nearly every Democrat on Thursday to advance a foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.”
“The biggest concern right now for leadership in both parties is what they see as an effort by opponents to kill, or at the very least, delay the legislation.”
Playbook: “The Senate is in today under the threat of weekend work, and it sure looks as though the jet fumes aren’t going to win out this time.”
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