U.S. Senate majority leader plans vote on Ukraine aid in early December

He stated this in a letter to senators on Sunday, Ukrinform reports, citing Pitico.

Schumer also called on Democrats to engage more with Republicans to agree on border security measures to help manage the influx of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. Earlier, Republican Speaker Mike Johnson said that he wanted to combine Ukraine funding with border security measures.

Schumer blamed that border demand as the "biggest hdup" to delivering new funds to Ukraine's defense against Russia and Israel's war with Hamas.

"This has injected a decades d, hyper-partisan issue into overwhelmingly bipartisan priorities," Schumer said. He said his 51-member caucus was "ready to work on common-sense sutions to address immigration" but warned that if the Republican Party took too hard a line, it could "jeardize the entire" supplemental bill.

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"Nothing would make autocrats like Putin or Xi happier right now than to see the United States waver in our support for the Ukrainian pele and its military," Schumer wrote in his letter, referring to the leaders of Russia and China. "This is not just about Ukrainian or Transatlantic security, it's about American security as well because an unchecked Putin would be an embdened Putin."

Schumer also said there would be an all-senators briefing on Ukraine in the coming days.

A bipartisan gang formed several weeks ago with hes of clinching a deal that would marry Biden's request for more than $100 billion for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and the border with changes to U.S. asylum and pare picy.

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