House lawmakers in both parties joined forces Saturday to send a massive package of foreign aid to the Senate, ending a long and bitter stalemate over the fate of the legislation and all but ensuring the delivery of billions of dollars in new help to embattled allies across the globe. The r...
Washington— The House on Tuesday rejected a standalone bill to send billions of dollars in aid to Israel, with Republicans joining Democrats to defeat the effort to separate the assistance from a broader national security package that appears to be stalled in the Senate. By a vote of 250 to...
House passes Israel aid package bill The House of Representatives passed a GOP-led bill to provide $14.3 billion in aid to Israel, setting up a fight with the Biden administration and Democratic-controlled Senate. The final vote was 226-196. The bill provides $4 billion in funding ...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer railed against House Republicans' standalone Israel aid proposal, declaring it a "joke" and "stunningly unserious." "Speaker Johnson and House Republicans released a totally unserious and woefully inadequate package that omitted aid to Ukraine, omitted humanitarian ...
Ahead of the House's vote on Thursday to pass its GOP-proposed $14.3 billion Israel aid bill, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said the upper chamber won't consider the legislation, which he called a "deeply flawed proposal." "Instead we will work on our own bipartisan ...
At least half of the Senate Republican conference supports Ukraine aid, as does a large chunk of the House GOP conference:101 of them votedfor Ukraine funding in the defense appropriations bill in September. So Johnson isn’t just trying to divide Democrats with this trick; he’s spl...
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largest U.S. grant aid package ever for Israel at the time. The remaining $700 mil ion was designated as a military loan. According to the New York Times, the Ford Administration reached a new arms sales agreement with Israel a year and a half later, providing that, “the cost of the...
. James Lankford of Oklahoma and Thom Tillis of North Carolina have pushed back on the House GOP demand that the border component be the same as its immigration bill. The two, along with Bennet, have been part of the small bipartisan group of senators negotiating a border security package....
MORE: House approves $95 billion in aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan The legislation, which includes four bills thatpassed in the Houseover the weekend with bipartisan support. The package provides roughly $26 billion for Israel, currently at war with Hamas in Gaza; as wel...