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Last week Senate Republicans

blocked a bipartisan border bill including $95 billion in wartime aid for Ukraine, Israel, and other nations.

The bill links GOP requests for stricter immigration policy

and changes Democrats requests for more aid to Ukraine. The deal unraveled last

week and Senate Democrats still hope to push a plan of foreign aid forward.

So how has the Southern border become a leveraging tool for Senate Republicans?

What changes to border policy does the GOP want to see?

How likely is it that these changes will take shape

before November?

We get into those questions after the break.

And later, we get into what's at stake for Ukraine

without US support.

I'm Elliot Williams, a legal analyst for CNN, and for Gen White.

1A's Todd's Willick is also here.

Hey there.

You're listening to the 1A podcast, where we get into the heart of the story. Stay with us. We've got a lot to get into.

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