President Biden signs bill that includes $95B foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan

On Wednesday, President Joe Biden signed the measure to present $95 cardinal successful overseas assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan -- a bipartisan triumph months successful the making.

The bundle was approved successful the Senate 79-18 connected Tuesday.

Thirty-one Republicans joined with 48 Democrats to walk the legislation. That's 9 much Republicans than supported the assistance bundle erstwhile the Senate past considered it successful February. Two Democrats -- Sens. Jeff Merkley and Peter Welch -- arsenic good arsenic autarkic Sen. Bernie Sanders voted against the authorities on with 15 Republicans.

The legislation, which includes 4 bills that passed successful the House implicit the play with bipartisan support.

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The bundle provides astir $26 cardinal for Israel, presently astatine warfare with Hamas successful Gaza; arsenic good arsenic $61 cardinal for Ukraine and $8 cardinal for allies successful the Indo-Pacific. A 4th measure would unit a U.S. prohibition of TikTok if its Chinese genitor institution doesn't merchantability it; enforce sanctions connected Russia, China and Iran; and prehend Russian assets to assistance Ukraine rebuild from the war's damage.

The bundle present heads to President Joe Biden's table wherever helium said successful a connection that helium volition motion it Wednesday.

"(A) bipartisan bulk successful the Senate joined the House to reply history's telephone astatine this captious inflection point," Biden said successful a statement. "Congress has passed my authorities to fortify our nationalist information and nonstop a connection to the satellite astir the powerfulness of American leadership: we basal resolutely for ideology and freedom, and against tyranny and oppression."

Biden reiterated that the state countries seeking assistance request the funds urgently.

"The request is urgent: for Ukraine, facing unrelenting bombardment from Russia; for Israel, which conscionable faced unprecedented attacks from Iran; for refugees and those impacted by conflicts and earthy disasters astir the world, including successful Gaza, Sudan, and Haiti; and for our partners seeking information and stableness successful the Indo-Pacific."

Majority Leader Chuck Schumer celebrated the bipartisan occurrence of the transition of the overseas assistance bundle Tuesday evening during a late-night property league pursuing the vote.

"It's not each time you tin accidental you made the satellite genuinely a amended spot but I deliberation the Senate tin accidental that contiguous and I americium precise arrogant of what has happened," Schumer said.

"America sends a connection to the full satellite we volition not crook our backmost connected you. We archer our allies we basal with you we archer our adversaries don't messiness with america we archer the satellite we volition bash everything to support ideology and our mode of life. This nationalist information measure is 1 of the astir important measures Congress has passed successful a precise agelong clip to support Americas information and the information of occidental democracy," Schumer added.

Schumer applauded his colleagues who worked successful a bipartisan mode to get the measure crossed the decorativeness line. And helium gave a peculiar outcry retired to Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

"He knew the close happening to bash and stuck with it," Schumer said.

During a fulsome property league aft an earlier procedural ballot connected the package, McConnell said helium believes his enactment is opening to bushed backmost the trends of isolationism helium has fought against. He conceded that the isolationist streak successful his enactment is not gone, but helium said helium believes advancement has been made.

"If you're looking for a inclination I deliberation it's a inclination successful the absorption that I would similar to spot america go, which is America steps up to its enactment relation successful the satellite and does what it needs to do," McConnell said.

He counted the groundswell of GOP enactment a win.

"I deliberation we've turned the country connected this argument," helium said, adding, "I deliberation we've turned the country connected the isolationist movement. I've noticed however uncomfortable proponents of that are erstwhile you telephone them isolationists. I deliberation we've made immoderate advancement and I deliberation it's going to person to continue."

What's next?

Aid volition beryllium provided to immoderate state countries wrong days, Biden said.

In anticipation of the measure passing, the Biden medication had worked up a astir $1 cardinal subject assistance bundle for Ukraine with the archetypal shipment arriving wrong days of approval, a U.S. authoritative told ABC News connected Tuesday.

The bundle volition see desperately needed artillery rounds, aerial defence ammunition and armored vehicles, according to the official. The weapons and instrumentality volition beryllium drawn from existing U.S. stockpiles nether statesmanlike drawdown authorization (PDA).

Ukraine can't triumph its combat against Russia without the funding, America's apical wide successful Europe said earlier this month.

"They are present being retired changeable by the Russian broadside 5 to one. So Russians occurrence 5 times arsenic galore artillery shells astatine the Ukrainians past the Ukrainians are capable to occurrence back," U.S. European Command's Gen. Christopher Cavoli told the House Armed Services Committee. "That volition instantly spell to 10 to 1 successful a substance of weeks. We're not talking astir months."

The result of the warfare could bent successful the balance, according to Cavoli.

"The severity of this infinitesimal cannot beryllium overstated. If we bash not proceed to enactment Ukraine, Ukraine could lose," helium said.

It has been much than a twelvemonth since Congress approved caller assistance for Ukraine successful its combat against Russian invaders. The warfare has intensified successful caller weeks, arsenic much Russian strikes interruption done with Ukraine's aerial defenses moving low.

Biden archetypal requested much assistance for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific past fall. The Senate passed a $95 cardinal measure successful February, but the authorities faced a logjam successful the House arsenic a conjugation of Republican hard-liners grew opposed to sending much resources overseas without addressing home issues similar immigration.

Speaker Mike Johnson's presumption connected Ukraine assistance evolved from besides requiring changes to borderline and migration argumentation to moving with Democrats to walk the latest bills.

GOP leaders similar Johnson echoed those concerns and had pushed for large changes to migration policy, though a sweeping woody successful the Senate to necktie overseas assistance to specified changes was opposed by erstwhile President Donald Trump and rejected by conservatives arsenic insufficient.

Then, unit accrued connected lawmakers to walk assistance to overseas allies aft Iran's unprecedented attacks connected Israel earlier this month, successful retaliation for a onslaught connected an Iranian consular analyzable successful Syria, and arsenic Russian forces proceed to marque violative gains.

Speaker Johnson, erstwhile opposed to much assistance for Ukraine, said past week helium was "willing" to involvement his occupation connected the contented arsenic an ouster menace looms from chap Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massie and Paul Gosar.

Johnson earned bipartisan praise for the reversal.

"He tried to bash what the, you know, accidental the Freedom Caucus wanted him to do. It wasn't going to enactment successful the Senate oregon the White House," Republican Rep. Michael McCaul, the House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman, said connected ABC's "This Week" connected Sunday. "At the extremity of the day, we were moving retired of time. Ukraine's getting acceptable to fall."

Johnson, McCaul said, "went done a transformation" connected the issue.

After the procedural votes' passing, Schumer adjacent praised Johnson.

"I convey Speaker Johnson, who roseate to the occasion, successful his ain words, said helium had to bash the close happening contempt the tremendous governmental unit connected him" Schumer said.