The Senate released the text of a $118 billion spending bill Sunday night that includes funding for U.S. border security as well as security-related aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. But House leadership calls the Senate bill “dead on arrival” if it reaches the lower chamber.
“I’ve seen enough,” House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., wrote on X about three hours after Senate leadership released text of the spending bill.
“This bill is even worse than we expected,” Johnson said, adding that it “won’t come close to ending the border catastrophe the president has created.”
“As the lead Democrat negotiator proclaimed: Under this legislation, ‘the border never closes.’ If this bill reaches the House, it will be dead on arrival,” the House’s top Republican said.
