I just came from the Senate floor, where I took one of the most difficult votes I’ve taken since I’ve been in the Senate.

The context is entirely different. The time is different. The president is different. I don’t see supporting anything that accelerates this president’s project to dismantle our government.

I was disappointed more than surprised, because it clearly is an end-run around Congress.

Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.

Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.

This is an apparent attempt to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval.

Under the US Constitution, Congress has the power of the purse, and the Government Accountability Office has concluded that this type of rescission is unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act.

Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.

Given that this package was sent to Congress very close to the end of the fiscal year when the funds are scheduled to expire, this is an apparent attempt to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval.

Article I of the Constitution makes clear that Congress has the responsibility for the power of the purse.

I had just had it. I kept expecting that Israel would wake up and realize what an awful thing they were perpetuating, and that surely they would at least open up humanitarian aid. They just continued to not do it, and I just reached the…

My litmus test will be simple: No aid of any kind as long as there are starving children in Gaza due to the action or inaction of the Israeli government.

I cannot defend the indefensible... I am through supporting the actions of the current Israeli government.

that tragic event cannot in turn justify the enormous toll on Palestinian civilians caused by Israel's relentless bombing campaign and its indifference to the current plight of those trapped in what's left of Gaza.

Israel's actions in the conduct of the war in Gaza, especially its failure to address the unimaginable humanitarian crisis now unfolding, is an affront to human decency.

My litmus test will be simple: No aid of any kind as long as there are starving children in Gaza due to the action or inaction of the Israeli government.

The starvation gripping Gaza is a deliberately induced famine among a civilian population—including tens of thousands of starving children and can never be an acceptable military strategy.

I cannot defend the indefensible. Israel’s actions in the conduct of the war in Gaza, especially its failure to address the unimaginable humanitarian crisis now unfolding, is an affront to human decency.