The House voted overwhelmingly to approve the aid bill for allies in the Indo-Pacific in a 385 to 34 vote, with one member voting present, along with the aid for Israel, with a 366 to 58 vote. More contentious was the vote on Ukraine aid, which came after months of infighting among H...
The House has removed $300 million in Ukraine aid from its fiscal year 2024 defenseappropriations legislation and is set to consider the funding as a separate bill.The move is a bid from Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to shore up enough Republicansupport to pass the House's $826.5 ...
TheUSHouse of Representativeswill consider aid toIsraelandUkraineas separate legislation this week, Republican Speaker Mike Johnson said on Monday, more than two months after the Senate passed a bill combining the two. Leaving a meeting of House Republicans on Monday evening, Mr Johnso...
Ukraine and other war zones in the world, a provision Democrats had demanded as a condition of their support. But the money was not enough to get some liberals on board, who opposed the Israel bill Saturday largely because it did not place conditions on aid for Jerusalem. ...
Washington — President Biden urged House Republicans to "immediately" take up a $95 billion foreign aid bill that includes assistance to Ukraine and Israel after the Senate passed the measure early Tuesday, saying that "there's no question" that it would pass if brought to the House floor. ...
WASHINGTON - A $1.7 trillion spending bill financing federal agencies through September and providing more aid to a devastated Ukraine cleared the House on Friday as lawmakers race to finish their work for the year and avoid a partial government shutdown. The bill passed mostly along party lines...
House Speaker Mike Johnson has sat on a funding package that would send desperately needed ammunition and weaponry to Ukraine for over a month.
House passage of the bill is only the first step. The Senate would also need to pass the measure for it to become law, and lawmakers in that chamber indicated it would undergo a thorough review. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said he’ll have...
THIS JUST IN —The Senate is moments away from passing the $95 billion national security supplemental, capping a long final weekend of debate — and months of wrangling that exposed a Republican Party badly split over aid to Ukraine. The vote remains open, but 69 senators have so far voted...
"We don't have the time" to further debate alternative approaches, the Senate minority leader said, pointing to his chamber's already-passed bipartisan bill. Burgess Everett 03/20/2024, 3:10pm ET The idea of making some Ukraine aid into a loan is gaining traction within the GOP. Not wit...