On Monday, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), one of the negotiators of the Senate's border and foreign policy package, stated that stripping funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the bill "was a demand of Republicans, the only way that they were willing to support any humanitarian aid into Gaza was to strip out the authority for that money to go to UNRWA. We didn't feel like it was the responsible thing to abandon humanitarian aid completely," and he thinks "there are ways to work with allies to make sure that UNRWA continues to be funded" and use American dollars to support other groups in the region.