giving a front row seat to democracy. i the senate lawmakers fail to move forward with a border security and foreign aid package. th w negotiate by a bipartisan group of senators. in a 49-50or the senate fell 11 short of the 60 votes needed. senate proceed with the vote to rensider the legislation without the border security provisio wch only required a simple majority. it was approved by vote of 58-41. a procedural vote on foreign aid for israel, ukraine and taiwan may now be held before the end of the week. here's some of the debate. >> and first-come happy birthday, mr. president. have a good one. i hope you all have a good one today. all right. well, today, mr. president,, today senators face the decision several months in the making. wilson republicans vote to start

debate, just to debate, a bipartisan legislation to strengthen america's security, stand with ukraine and fix our border? or will they cow to donald trump's orders to kill this bill? with the senate stand up to brutish thugs like vladimir putin, and reassure our friends abroad that america will never abandon them in the hour of need? willll republicans take yes forn answer, and sees the best opportunity, the best opportunity that congress seen in decades to secure our border? this is the choice republicans face today. they can either choose what's good for the countries national interest, or they can choose what's good at least in their minds for donald trump. mr. president, i've always believed the senate works best

when we take the bipartisan path. not everything is perfect in this bill, but i see it as my job to let bipartisanship take old whenever possible. and this bill reflects that. but all week long senate republicans have looked more and more like their house counterparts and transform themselves to the chaos caucus. republicans have said they can pass ukraine without border. now they say they can't pass ukraine with border. so today i'm giving them a choice. they can show america where they stand and what they stand for. which way will it be? today, i have laid out both options for republicans to do the right thing. democrats certainly want to fix the border. it is extremely important and

which shalle and our willingness time and time again to take big steps to secure the border come but we will move forward today with either option. first, i have scheduled a vote on the supplemental that includes strong bipartisan border reforms that republicans have demanded for months. negotiators on both sides worked themselves to the bone putting this a border package together. i was heavily involved. i saw the work, the blood, sweat, the tears that went into it. and why did we do it?us because that's what republicans wanted. they said, can't do ukraine, can't do israel, can't do humanitarian aid without border. i make sure negotiators had enough time to do their work. i gave them the space to keep going even when it seemed like the deal was out of reach. because again, democrats want to secure the border because it's extremely important. it is urgent. it can't

wait. we must act, and we're ready to move forward on this bill now. today whenn we vote it will be clear as day who is serious about fixing the border and who is not. i urge republicans to take yes for an answer. now, if republicans block this national security package aboard legislation that they demanded, later today i will give them the opportunity to move forward with the package without border reforms. this package will otherwise largely the same. it will have strong funding for ukraine, funding for israel, help for innocent civilians in gaza, and funding to the indo-pacific. the legislation on the floor today is one of the most important security packages the senate as considered in a very long time. so the onus is on senate republicans to finally take yes

for an answer. it would be an embarrassment for our country, an absolute republican party, if they reject national security funding twice in one day. today is the day for republicans to do the right thing when it comes to our national security. now, mr. president, it must -- >> mr. president, with my friends of new york yield. >> was no, i will not. >> just about a question for -- >> not right now. i'm in the middle of my speech. now, mr. president, it must be said that the 180-degree turn republicans have done on border is one of the most stunning things i've seen in congress in a long, long time do. the damage republicans have done this week to their credibility cannot be understated. after all, how many times have we heard a republican colleagues give speeches you on the floor about the emergency at the border? how many times have we heard

republican say year after year that congress must act? the legislation, that legislation is the only long-term solution. they asked at that. legislation is way we have to go. how many times have we seen republicans take field trips down to the border like eagle passport laredo, and take pictures with the fans cowering behind them while bemoaning that the problem with the border is only getting worse? well, apparently that was all for show. apparently republicans are not actually serious about fixing thebo border. because you cannot, you cannot claim to be serious about fixing the border while voting against the kind of border package we have before us today. you cannot claim to truly care about fixing asylum if you're going to vote against the biggest updates to asylum law in decades. you cannot claim to care about our border patrol agents while

depriving them of the very tools and funding they are asking for. remember, the union of border patrol agents, a very conservative, almost always prorepublican group, want us to pass this bill. and why are we doing all of this? why aren't they going to kill in one fell swoop disagreement that is taken months to piece together? the answer, why are the republicans doing all this, why have backed off on board when they know it's right thing to do? two words, donald trump. donald trump doesn't like the senate finally reached a real partisan border deal, a real bipartisan border deal. so he has demanded republicans kill it. let me say that again because it is plain, it's as plain as could be. donald trump doesn't like that the senate finally reached a bipartisande border deal, , so e

has demanded republicans kill itit. he thinks it's far better to keep the border in chaos so he can exploit it for personal political gains. and senate republicans, vertebrate nowhere to be found, are ready to blunder of what our best chance at fixing the border in order to elevate what they see as the interests of donald trump above the interests of the country. i expected the kind of, this kind of cynical nonsense on the far right house mag republicans, but it is shameful and embarrassing maga radicalism take hold you in the senate. so no matter how today shakes out, i hope republicans into doing the right thing when it comes to national security before the day is done, and agree to move forward on those things redo support. because, mr. president, is that there's one of the person besides donald trump was rooting for chaos in the senate, it is vladimir putin.

if we fail in this moment, if we abandon our friends in ukraine to vladimir putin, history will cast a shameful and permanent shadow on senators who blocked funding. it is a matter of size national emergency that we get this right. remember what putin said two months ago about american aid to ukraine. quote, the free stuff is going to run out someday, and it seems it already has, unquote. that, mr. president, is vladimir putin taunting the senate, taunting america. we have a t chance today to make them regret those words. republicans of decades past would have never hesitated to support funding for nations like ukraine. in previous generations both parties would have been unconvinced heaven and earth to stand up to russian dictators. i can hear ronald reagan giving a speech passionately asking the senate to vote for a ukraine. we spent half a century

safeguarding the free world against the militia spread of communism, against tyranny, against those who have tried to undermine our values. those very same issues of western democracy, of the sovereignty of free nations, of the safety of our troops, our citizens are on the line yet again in the 21st century. they are the very things that stitch the supplemental together. it is why we are here with this bill before us in the first place. there was only one right answer for the senate today to address the great challenges we face. there is only one path forward to fulfill our obligations to the american people. there was only one way senators, democrats and republicans both sides of the aisle should vote today, and that is for us to move forward on the package of national security. i yield the floor. >> mr. president? >> the senator from t