The Senate on Tuesday passed a long-delayed $95 billion package with wide bipartisan support after both sides of Capitol Hill have struggled for months to send aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
The final vote was 79-18. Fifteen Republicans voted with three Democrats against the bill. Forty-eight Democrats and 31 Republicans voted for the bill.
The legislation next goes to President Joe Biden to sign it into law, who said he would sign the package Wednesday. Its passage is a significant victory for the US president, congressional Democrats and Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell, who long pushed to send aid to Ukraine even as the right wing of his party increasingly soured on support for Kyiv.
And for all the GeNoCiDe JoE jokers out there, Democrats had stipulations on the funding for Israel that Republicans forced them to remove or they wouldn’t agree to any of it.
The concessions that were made were funding for Ukraine if we dropped the stipulations on how the Israel aid was used… So they are trying, but yet again the party of “fuck you” stands in the way…