Is the tax bill going to go anywhere in the Senate? Was Chuck Grassley just a lone voice?

I do think ultimately this will pass, Katie, but I think there's a mix of politics here

that has a lot to do with the fact that

there are such small margins in both the House and the Senate and that gives

individual members a lot of power when it comes to bills like this and so there

are senators that do have issues with certain aspects of the

bill they want to have their say whether that means it goes to the committee

process whether that means they offer up amendments on the Senate floor those

things are all possible ultimately though I do think the votes are there for this bill to ultimately pass it does of course require 60 votes in the Senate. I think the open question right now is the path that it takes to get

to those 60 votes and whether or not the Senate will make any tweaks to the

legislation that will then require the House to vote on it again that could

complicate it but I think to your point it's

so rare in this Congress to see such an overwhelming bipartisan support for any

piece of legislation much less a tax piece of legislation that I think it's going to be very difficult

for the Senate not to endorse this plan as well.

We just got a little bit of news from Senator Schumer, a majority leader, who just spoke on

the Senate floor. He said the legislative

text of the entire National Security Supplemental Aid Package will be

released as early as tomorrow and no later than Sunday. And interestingly

importantly he said this will be the entire

aid bill so funding for Ukraine Israel the border and Taiwan what is the

likelihood that that gets anywhere so this has been the elusive supplemental package that lawmakers have been hashing out for the last

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