Senate Fails to Add Compact Funds to Aid Package

FILE - Palau President Surangel Whipps Jr. addresses the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 19, 2023, at U.N. headquarters.

A last-minute bipartisan effort to add key funding aimed at countering China in the Pacific has failed in the U.S. Senate even as a $95 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan moved forward.