Senate set to vote after House passes $95B foreign aid package
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- Опубликовано: 21 апр 2024
- The House passed a $95 billion foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies in a rare Saturday session after months of failures to reach an agreement on both sides of the aisle.
Legislation also passed that would ban TikTok in the United States if the social media platform's China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake within a year.
The weekend scene presented a striking display of congressional action after months of dysfunction and stalemate fueled by Republicans, who hold the majority but are deeply split over foreign aid, particularly for Ukraine as it fights Russia's invasion. Speaker Mike Johnson, putting his job on the line, is relying on Democratic support to ensure the military and humanitarian package is approved, and help flows to the U.S. allies.
There was a series of votes on three aid bills, for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific, as well as a fourth that contains several other foreign policy proposals, including a clampdown on the popular social media platform TikTok.
The aid package is largely the same as the bipartisan package put together by the Senate months ago, but splitting it into separate bills allowed lawmakers to individually support some aid and not others.
On Friday, the House voted on procedural rules for these bills, getting more Democratic votes than it did Republican votes which is unusual for it being a Republican majority.
The bills will now head to the Senate, where passage in the coming days is nearly assured. President Joe Biden has promised to sign it immediately.
AP via Scripps News
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What do YOU think?
Maybe Johnson has redeemed himself for following the Big Lie and now send the likes of MTG,Boebert and such riding into the sunset.
Thanks for asking that! Refreshing.
Democrats are using every law to try to hang trump but trump has 200 million maga
Sad day for our Country. This is the end of a great nation. 😢
@@capt.america2737 nope giving up isn’t in our vocabulary
How come no one talks about aid to Israel? No one of those republicans make any fuss about helping rich countries like Israel or Taiwan ?
Ur democrats have given to Ukraine non stop the last 2 years while it let's American citizens do without...how many stimulus checks you cash with Joe Bidens name on it again...that's right someone in Ukraine is probably cashing one right now
Everyone know the answer
There’s $ for them too, where have u been?🤨🧐🤪
Slavs Ukraina ❤! Ty Leader Johnson!
We cannot afford to keep doing this....
How can we give money to others when we don’t have enough to keep our Government running?
In short, because the money stays in the USA. It is used to pay US companies that pay US employees to make new weapons. The old weapons the US have in stock will be sent to Ukraine and Israel. The US wins again! 😊 And the USA doesn’t have to send troops! Brilliant!
Now a national security bill to begin to explain.
I hope they will send the aid after all.
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Fairly
Let’s hope the Senate doesn’t play ignorant games with world peace. Like Margarine Traitor Cream does.
This bill is going to pass easily in the senate. Middle finger for Russia and middle finger for China. We are not going to retreat or be cowards. We will fight defending democracy and autonomy.
Middle finger to us citizens
China's stocks have dropped 60% since Biden took office. They're going through the same crisis the Soviet Union did when they tried to keep up with a country that uses its money to build stealth planes instead of feeding kids.
@joshschmidt3841 The end literally passed the main bottleneck. What are you even talking about, loss or cheating? Good try, ruzzian bot.
How about this instead? Give every hard working and retired AMERICAN CITIZEN $100,000. AMERICA FOR AMERICANS!!! WE THE PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF BEING LAST!!!!
A majority supports this. Talking about "we the people" and then not accept the majoritys will. Classic usa
What's in the foreign aid package!? Missles, riffles, bullets, grenades and tanks? $95 billion dollars is too much money to rebuid Iran!
Disgusting
The flags about behold this person does not have any clouds
Another waste of taxpayers money
How many more Palestinian kids and Ukrainians will die with this?
Today we have Palestinian students protesting on US campuses- Yale and Columbia, elite universities. Julie Ann Racino, 2024
Ukranians -I am Polish American-still at risk of loss of their capital, infrastructure land, homes and lives-new 2014 and 2022. For Palestinians see Pres. Jimmy Carter and Middle East history-I just started Christians in Holy Land with US Embassy moved by Trump to Jerusalem.
Palestinians support Hamas! They are responsible for this mess. They don’t even think of their own children. War is what they live by.
(To Y'all in the comments section) Should the US fund Ukraine? Just curious.
Nope not are problem Europe is week and no longer hold strategic positions it had during the 40s-80s
I'm happy with the result.
Say hello to the new banana republic. The United States 🇺🇸 soon to be like Haiti 🇭🇹
Get ur money now because come November ull never push another DEMOCRAT into the white house again
Pray to God and vote for Biden
I haven’t seen one Biden sign or sticker anywhere. Biden makes Al Gore’s low energy seem like a rock star. Meanwhile every minority I talk to loves the homie Trump
US tax payers money gone to the dogs!
They are funding Ukraine, not Russia. Funding Ukraine to fight against Russia's aggression, acts of terrorism, and war crimes is in the national security interest of the United States.
That's a lie nantuket