Opinion | Joe Biden’s Ukraine Emergency

The Senate voted Wednesday to block $110.5 billion in aid for Ukraine, Israel and U.S. allies in the Pacific, but this is best understood as kabuki-theater politics. Perhaps President Biden will now get serious about striking the kind of bipartisan compromise he said in 2020 that he was good at pulling off.

Democratic leader Chuck Schumer knew the Senate vote would fail because Republicans said they’d filibuster it. All 49 of them did. But Mr. Schumer held the vote anyway to appease his left flank and because he wants to blame the GOP if no aid eventually passes. He attacked Republicans for demanding that border-security provisions be added to the aid bill.