The House is set to vote on a legislative package providing aid to Israel without any spending cuts when lawmakers return to Washington next week, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) announced over the weekend.

In a Dear Colleague letter sent to lawmakers on Saturday, Johnson announced the bill text would be released over the weekend with a vote scheduled sometime in the coming days. The vote comes as the Senate prepares to release its long-awaited supplemental aid package that would implement stricter security policies at the southern border in exchange for financial aid for Ukraine and Israel.

The Senate is expected to vote on that supplemental bill next week, although Johnson has already deemed the framework “dead on arrival” in the House, making it unlikely to pass. Instead, Johnson will push for the passage of a $17 billion aid package to Israel in a move to preempt the Senate’s bipartisan deal.

“While the Senate appears poised to finally release text of their supplemental package after months of behind closed doors negotiations, their leadership is aware that by failing to include the House in their negotiations, they have eliminated the ability for swift consideration of any legislation,” Johnson wrote in the letter. “As I have said consistently for the last three months, the House will have to work its will on these issues and our priorities will need to be addressed.”

The move underscores Johnson’s previous calls to keep supplemental funding packages separate from border legislation.

The aid package comes months after the House passed a $14.3 billion aid package to Israel that would have included spending cuts to the Internal Revenue Service, which Senate Democrats decried as a “poison pill” policy rider. The latest proposed package would not include any additional cuts, Johnson said, criticizing Democrats for “refus[ing] to consider that offset to support Israel (even though they agreed to additional cuts to the IRS to pay for their domestic priorities in the final appropriations topline).”

“During debate in the House and in numerous subsequent statements, Democrats made clear that their primary objection to the original House bill was with its offsets,” he wrote. “The Senate will no longer have excuses, however misguided, against swift passage of this critical support for our ally.”

The legislation will be introduced by Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA), according to Johnson. However, it’s not entirely clear whether the bill would be taken up by the Democratic-led Senate, especially as lawmakers push for the passage of its bipartisan framework instead. That legislative text is expected to be released on Sunday.

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Even if it did manage to pass the Senate, the White House has previously vowed to veto any stand-alone aid bills for Israel, urging instead for its full supplemental request.

“The president would veto an only-Israel bill,” John Kirby, coordinator for strategic communications for the National Security Council, said in November. “I think that we’ve made that clear.”