The roughly $95 billion foreign aid package that passed through the Senate after dispensing with a controversial immigration deal that was attached to it was “all about political camouflage” for the Democrats, according to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).
More than half of the Republicans in the Senate, including Cruz, opposed the bill that would allocate funds to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and other foreign priorities — including humanitarian aid — in an early-morning vote on Tuesday.
“I think the foreign aid bill that was rammed through by Democrats in the Senate, I think it’s going nowhere in the House. They know that,” Cruz said on “Sunday Morning Futures” in an interview with Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo.
“The bill was all about political camouflage,” he said, adding that it gives Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and his fellow Democrats “the ability to…
