New Foreign Aid, Border Bills Being Worked On, Congressman Says

Amid heavy partisan debate in Washington D.C. over immigration and funding to allies, Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick told reporters on Wednesday a bipartisan border security bill and foreign aid supplemental bill are being worked on.

Ken Tran, a reporter for USA Today, posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, that Fitzpatrick said the foreign aid supplemental bill will be revealed in a “few days.”

FITZPATRICK says he is working w/ House and Senate members on a bipartisan foreign aid supplemental that's different from the original Senate bill, but mostly similar.

Said it will be out in a "few days."

— Ken Tran (@kentran_) February 14, 2024

The GOP congressman said that the bills are different than the bipartisan one introduced in the U.S. Senate that House Speaker Mike Johnson has already indicated will not move forward, according to Washington Examiner reporter Cami Mondeaux.

Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick says there is an effort to draft a separate Ukraine/Israel/border bill that would replace Senate bill that Speaker Johnson has already called dead on arrival.

“We have our own product that we’re going to release … hopefully in a few days.”

— Cami Mondeaux (@cami_mondeaux) February 14, 2024

Politico reported that one bill will tackle support for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan and another will be focused on the issues at the border.

“Stay tuned in the next 24 hours, I think you’ll see something that I think will be bipartisan,” he said, according to the publication.

Fitzpatrick’s office didn’t respond to a request for comment or details on the bill from this news organization. Two requests for an interview with Fitzpatrick were not returned.

In the statement posted to his website last week, Fitzpatrick, a supporter of continued military aid of Ukraine and increased security at the border, said “lawmakers must rise above partisan gamesmanship and come together to solve problems for the American people, when presented with the opportunity.”