The bill passed the Senate on an overwhelming 79-18 vote late Tuesday after the House had approved the package Saturday.
TikTok is threatening legal action, as the Senate takes up a bill to ban it. Here's how the company might fight back. to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan , sending the legislation to President Joe Biden after months of delays and contentious debate over how involved the United States should be in foreign wars. Saturday.
In an interview with The Associated Press shortly before the vote, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said that if Congress hadn’t passed the aid, “America would have paid a price economically, politically, militarily.”On the Senate floor, Schumer said the Senate was sending a message to U.S. allies: “We will stand with you.”
In an effort to gain more votes, Republicans in the House majority also added a bill to the foreign aid package that in the U.S. if its Chinese owners do not sell their stake within a year. That legislation had wide bipartisan support in both chambers. as he tried to move the bill through the House despite significant opposition within his conference.
The package has had broad congressional support since Biden first requested the money last summer. But congressional leaders had to navigate strong opposition from a growing number of conservatives who question U.S. involvement in foreign wars and argue that Congress should be focused instead on the surge of migration at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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