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.
Emphasis mine:
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.
Point of Order: in fact, only one of our two political parties has struggled to get this passed, and in only one of our legislative chambers. It was the House Republicans.
“Both sides struggle when one side is a petulant child” doesn’t have the same ring to it.
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…
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If anyone’s wondering, 26 billion goes to Israel
That’s a lot of dead kids
Can’t make a genocide without a few dead kids and a pile of free American cash, as Israel always says!
It’s an unusual expression, but it goes back generations now… O.o
Wow, genocide is expensive huh? Good thing they didn’t forget to donate more money towards it, poor Israel was at risk of leaving the Palestinians in peace.
Genocide Joe went from trying to give israel 16 Billion to just putting another 10 billion on top. Gotta make sure all of Bidens secret weapon
donations“purchases” to israel from before are fully refunded!
Why israel??
Honestly, a standalone Ukrainian bill wouldn’t have passed the senate, like wise an Israeli bill wouldn’t either. Neither by themselves would make it past the 60 vote fillabuster margin, so a compromise was made to throw them all together to get past the fillabuster. This all could have happened way sooner but Trump and the hardliners didn’t want the border issue solved.
I would suspect an Israeli bill would have passed either way. Both parties support Israel. The only way to get Ukraine passed was by tying it to Israel. The border bill didn’t solve any issues. IT was garbage. It is why people have been pushing back on the bill.
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Someone told me that all of these were voted on separately though, was that a lie?
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So according to this logic, two negatives makes a positive? Israel wouldn’t deserve funding on its own, nor Ukraine, but together they should? How does that work, exactly? I’m lost.
(Also f**k Israel. ✊)
There are some legislators who agree with a Ukraine bill and some who agree with an Israel bill. However, some would like to pass only one or the other. So what one does is to create a combined bill and find some number of legislators who will support both. The actual bill, as I recall, isn’t just Ukraine aid and Israel aid, but also Taiwan aid and the TikTok divestment requirement and involved discussions spanning all of the House, Senate, and Biden personally, so there was probably a lot discussion.
It’s not an uncommon practice; part of getting legislation through is figuring out what needs to go in to get enough legislators onboard. “I’ll support X if you support Y.”
Rs wanted Israel funding, Ds wanted Ukraine funding. With the power of working together, both sides got what they wanted.
As if the 75%+ Neoliberal and further right wing Dems who still go to AIPAC events, including Schumer, didn’t want funding for the genocide too 🙄
Of course, that makes sense. I was unnecessarily lost, lol.
They need it for the same reason musk needs that 56 billion from Tesla
For funsies?
Rich people just need more money, duh
Who else is gonna make all these bootstraps???
maybe try pushing up sunflowers Russian army.
Get F’d w/♥️
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
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.
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.
“I will sign this bill into law and address the American people as soon as it reaches my desk tomorrow so we can begin sending weapons and equipment to Ukraine this week,” Biden said.
“This critical legislation will make our nation and world more secure as we support our friends who are defending themselves against terrorists like Hamas and tyrants like Putin,” Biden said.
The House took up the legislation after Johnson bucked conservatives in his party who opposed sending aid to Ukraine and threatened to oust him over his handling of the issue.
The legislation underscores the US’ support for Ukraine, Zelensky said, adding that the aid will bolster the country’s defense and military capabilities on the battlefield.
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It’s weird how my local conservatives are complaining about Ukraine benefiting from this but not complaining about Israel…
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.
“This vote reinforces America’s role as a beacon of democracy and the leader of the free world,” he said.
definitely not a victory for the US citizens though whose rights and civil liberties are endangered
Can you explain how our rights and civil liberties are being endangered by this bill passing?
And whose pocketbooks are a lot lighter now.
