| Sen. John Cornyn was among the 68 senators who supported the bill that funds the government for a year, sends more than $44 billion in emergency aid to Ukraine, includes major election reforms aimed at preventing another Jan. 6 attack and funds health care for veterans exposed to toxic chemicals from burn pits when they were deployed overseas. "While I strongly believe the government funding process is broken and must return to regular order, we cannot abdicate our duty to our men and women in uniform and at our southern border and fail to provide them the resources to do their jobs," Cornyn tweeted. "Sometimes the lesser of two bad choices is all you have got." But a GOP rift over immigration policy threatened to tank the massive funding deal at the last moment, and it convinced Sen. Ted Cruz to vote against the bill. "It is the height of recklessness for Senate Republican leadership to cut a deal with House Democrats who were just voted out of power and give away the leverage that the incoming Republican majority in the House of Representatives could have used to force the Biden administration to change course on policies that are harming America," Cruz said in a statement. Read the full story here. | 
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