The US Senate passed a $95 billion military funding package Tuesday morning but its fate in the House remains unclear after top leader, Speaker Mike Johnson, blasted the deal over its exclusion of hardline immigration restrictions.

The measure passed 70-29 with support from nearly all Democrats and 22 Republicans. A small number of progressive senators, including Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley, objected to the bill’s inclusion of billions of dollars worth of offensive military aid to Israel as the Palestinian death toll from its war in Gaza nears 30,000.

“I cannot vote to send more bombs and shells to Israel when they are using them in an indiscriminate manner against Palestinian civilians,” Sen. Merkley said in a statement on Monday night.

Vermont senators, Democrat Peter Welch and independent Bernie Sanders, who wanted to make aid to Israel conditional on whether its government was violating human rights and international accords in Gaza, also objected to the measure.

The foreign aid bill earmarks $14 billion for Israel to finance missile-defense systems and other weaponry and to aid US military operations in the region. The bill’s passage in the Senate comes as Israel gears up for a full-scale ground offensive in Rafah, the southern Gaza city where more than one million Palestinians have fled under Israel’s promise of safety. 

The impending assault threatens the flow of humanitarian aid into the region, which is already low, according to aid agencies. United Nations officials warned it could “lead to slaughter.”

A small group of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s constituents rallied outside the leader’s apartment after Tuesday morning’s vote to show their disapproval of the legislation. They banged on pots and pans, chanting “Free Palestine.” in the snow.

The protestors sent a clear message to the Senator on social media.

“If you continue to fund the genocide being committed by the Israeli military, we will continue to make noise. As long as Palestinians awake to bombs and tanks, you will awake to pots and pans,” the group wrote on an Instagram post on DATE. “Shame on you for voting to pass the spending bill that will lead to more Palestinaians killed and displaced.”

Schumer, who worked closely with Republican Leader Mitch McConnell on the legislation praised the bill’s passage Tuesday.

“With this bill, the Senate declares that American leadership will not waver, will not falter, will not fail,” he said.

The measure includes $60 billion in funding for Ukraine to go toward supporting Ukrainian military operations and  replenishing the US supply of weapons and equipment. More than $8 billion would go to support Taiwan and partners in the Indo-Pacific to deter China. The bill allocates nearly $10 billion for humanitarian efforts.

Mike Johnson pronounced an earlier version of the bill that contained the crackdowns at the southern border Republicans had demanded “dead on arrival” last week, under pressure from Donald Trump. Johnson told Republican congress members he would call a House vote on a $17.6 billion standalone funding bill for Israel.

“The mandate of national security supplemental legislation was to secure America’s own border before sending additional foreign aid around the world,” Johnson said. “In the absence of having received any single border policy change from the Senate, the House will have to continue to work its own will on these important matters. America deserves better than the Senate’s status quo.”