As border deal looks doomed, Schumer goads Republicans into taking 2 Senate votes on national security supplemental bill

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is planning to hold two separate votes Wednesday on the bipartisan national security supplemental bill.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is planning to hold two separate votes Wednesday on the bipartisan national security supplemental bill -- a way to force Republicans to vote on two options of the bill they said they would sink.

Around 1 p.m., Schumer is planning to hold a procedural vote on the national security supplemental, which includes aid for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan as well as the new border policy deal. That vote will likely fail as Senate Republicans have said they will block it.

The second vote will be a procedural vote on whether to begin debate on a national security package that includes aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan but none of the border provisions or funds. It is unclear whether that will get the 60 votes necessary to advance to debate.

Following that likely failed vote, Schumer will then put the national security supplemental bill without the negotiated border deal on the floor for a procedural vote.