In an interview with VTDigger on Wednesday afternoon, the independent senator from Vermont said he was prepared to vote ‘no’ on a $110 billion emergency foreign aid package that includes funding for Israel and Ukraine.
Sen. Bernie Sanders is knocking the proposed funding for Israel in the $110 billion emergency aid package that the chamber weighed, Tuesday in a letter to his colleagues.
Sanders joined Senate Republicans in blocking an aid bill for Israel and Ukraine on Wednesday. He tells NPR that Israel has the right to go to war with Hamas, but not "against the Palestinian people."
GOP opposition stopped an aid bill for Israel and Ukraine from passing in the Senate. Sanders, who supports aid to Israel in its war against Hamas but says it should be conditional, also voted no.
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