Schumer says Senate will not wait for House to act on aid package for Israel
The Senate will start working on a compressive aid package for Israel despite dysfunction in the House of Representatives, which remains without a speaker, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Sunday.
"We’re not waiting for the House. We believe if the Senate acts in a strong bipartisan way, it may indeed improve the chances that the House, even with its current dysfunction, will act," Schumer told reporters in Tel Aviv.
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Schumer led a bipartisan delegation of senators to Israel to meet with high-ranking government officials following the Oct. 7 deadly terror attacks by Hamas. On Sunday, Schumer and other members of the delegation were rushed into a bomb shelter in Tel Aviv to wait out a rocket attack, according to a social media post from the New York senator.
-ABC News' Davone Morales