Senate Republicans Not Lined Up Behind Biden’s $106 Billion War Budget

Media reports after the Senate Republican caucus luncheon on Tuesday, Oct. 24 generally acknowledged there is much infighting ahead over President Biden’s request for $106 billion for a four-front war (Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and the U.S. Southern border). Politico was the most downbeat, declaring the package to be “in big trouble”, with Senate GOP divisions “threatening to sink the proposal—or dramatically reshape it.” The Republican Senators were “uncharacteristically pessimistic after the party’s first discussion about the legislation at Tuesday’s lunch,” even of those who had backed rolling those four funding requests into one, Politico asserted.