Schumer urges GOP to 'figure themselves out' as Senate adjourns without approving security aid

The Senate adjourned on Wednesday evening without finalizing plans to provide Israel and Ukraine with military aid after the original legislation pairing that support with border security reforms failed to clear a procedural hurdle.

Republicans tanked a procedural vote on the border-aid package, prompting Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to put forward just the foreign aid, a proposal that has yet to secure chamber approval.

Schumer on Wednesday evening said the chamber would reconvene Thursday at noon in order to "to give our Republican colleagues the night to figure themselves out," according to Punchbowl News's Andrew Desiderio.

"Republicans first insisted the only way to pass this National Security Supplemental [measure] was with a border package attached," Schumer said earlier in the day. "Now, they are saying the only way it can proceed is without. I am giving them both options."

After the Senate made public the provisions of the negotiated border-aid package, Republican opposition stiffened, with many lawmakers insisting that the border provisions would not address the ongoing surge in illegal crossings.

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