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The bipartisan border bill that many conservatives had panned has died in the Senate.
The vote was 49-50. It needed 60 votes to pass. The vote went mostly along party lines.
The $118 billion package included $60 billion for Ukraine, $14 billion for Israel, aid to Taiwan and humanitarian assistance to Gaza, and $20 billion in measures to tackle the historic and ongoing crisis at the southern border. It came in response to a White House supplemental funding request submitted to Congress late last year.
The Senate will now have to pass a package with aid for Israel and Ukraine without tying it to the border, something the Biden Administration did not want to do.