The Senate held a procedural vote on a foreign assistance package on Thursday that would send Ukraine $60.1 billion in assistance, fund Israel's genocide and provide $10 billion in general humanitarian aid for global crises.
In a statement ahead of the vote, Sanders cited the horrors that Israel is inflicting on Gaza as the reason for his 'no' vote. 'Over 1.7 million people have been driven from their homes and have no idea as to where they will be in the future. Almost 70 percent of the housing units in Gaza have been destroyed or damaged. And today, hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children are literally starving to death because Netanyahu's right-wing government is preventing desperately needed food and water from getting into Gaza,' Sanders said.
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