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Senate advances $95BN aid bill that could ban TikTok

Дата публикации: 23-04-2024 19:09:29

The Senate is on track to send the $95 billion foreign aid package to the president's desk this week after a vote to advance it passed Tuesday.

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By MORGAN PHILLIPS, CONGRESS REPORTER

Published: 15:08 EDT, 23 April 2024 | Updated: 15:09 EDT, 23 April 2024

The Senate is on track to send the $95 billion foreign aid package to the president's desk this week after a vote to advance it passed Tuesday. The vote to invoke cloture, or begin debate, on the legislation passed 80 to 19. 

The package ties together $60 billion for Ukraine , $26 billion for Israel and Gaza and around $4 billion for the Indo-Pacific - and a measure that could see TikTok banned in the U.S.

'Getting this done is one of the greatest achievements of the Senate in years, perhaps decades,' Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said after the vote. The bill passed the House on Saturday in four separate votes before being packaged together for the Senate. Speaker Mike Johnson risked his career to get Ukraine aid to the Senate - three Republicans have now signed onto a motion to vacate him over the Ukraine aid.

The Ukraine bill includes $23 billion for replenishing U.S. stockpiles that have been depleted for the fight in Russia. Some $11 billion would go to U.S. military operations in the region and $14 billion would go to procuring advanced weapons systems. Another $26 million would go to oversight and accountability of equipment given to Ukraine.

Two separate economic assistance funds worth $7.85 billion and $1.58 billion would also be offered to Ukraine under a loan structure. 'Make no mistake: delay in providing Ukraine the weapons to defend itself has strained the prospects of defeating Russian aggression. Dithering and hesitation have compounded the challenges we face,' GOP Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said ahead of the vote.

'I will not mince words when members of my own party take the responsibilities of American leadership lightly.' The Israel security bill will offer $4 billion to replenish Israel's Iron Dome Missile Defense system and billions more for weapons systems, artillery and munitions, as well as an additional $2.4 billion for U.S. operations in the region. Nine billion dollars in that bill goes to humanitarian relief for Palestinians in Gaza.

A fourth bill includes several measures such as requiring TikTok divest from its Chinese-owned parent company ByteDance, an effort to obtain seized Russian assets and a lend-lease program for military aid to Ukraine. The House already passed a bill to force ByteDance to divest TikTok, but the new catch-all legislation would give TikTok nine months rather than six months to separate itself from China. Attaching the measure to the foreign aid will force the Senate to vote on it after Schumer dragged his feet at putting it on the floor.

The so-called 'side car' bill also includes a provision involving the REPO Act, meaning it would seize Russian assets that until now have only been frozen and repurpose them for Ukraine, and one that would involve the Lend-Lease Act, which would require Ukraine to give back U.S. military assets that are not destroyed in war. Johnson noted much of the bill is not going directly to any country but is going to backfill U.S. stockpiles that have been depleted for Ukraine and Israel. The U.S. was heavily involved in defending Israel against Iran's 300 missile strikes last week.

Intelligence officials, meanwhile, have been warning members of Congress of Ukraine's urgent need for U.S. aid. CIA Director Bill Burns warned Thursday that Ukraine 'could lose on the battlefield by the end of 2024.' Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, urged voters ahead of the bill's advance: 'We Don't Have To Pass This Bill Tell Your Senators To Vote 'No!' #KillTheBill.' Lee has put forth an amendment to make sure the Ukrainian 'loan' provisions must be repaid (they are forgivable in the House version). The foreign aid package has laid to bare a rift within the GOP almost as vast as the on between the two parties. Sen. Lindsey Graham , R-S.C., tore into Ohio Republican Sen. J.D. Vance for his anti-Ukraine aid stance over the weekend.

Vance had written in a New York Times op-ed that Ukraine could not win the fight against Russia even with U.S. aid. 'Ukraine's challenge is not the GOP; it's math. Ukraine needs more soldiers than it can field. And it needs more matériel than the United States can provide,' Vance wrote. 'That is garbage,' Graham shot back on Fox News Sunday. 'Go … I just got back, I was there two weeks ago. They changed their conscription laws. They have all the manpower they need. They need the weapons,' he continued. 'It's one thing to talk about Ukraine over here; it's another thing to go.'

Sen. Rand Paul , R-Ky., meanwhile raised concerns about a provision in the package that would force Chinese-owned ByteDance to divest TikTok or face a U.S. ban. 'The censors who abound in Congress will likely vote to ban TikTok or force a change in ownership,' he wrote in an op-ed for Reason. 'It would violate the First Amendment rights of over 100 million Americans who use TikTok to express themselves.' He sounded off about Democrats waving 'corrupt' Ukraine flags on the House floor as they voted on the package. 'Ukrainian flags fly in the chamber of the UNITED STATES House of Representatives as they vote to send more of your hard-earned money to a corrupt foreign regime. And just like that they shout 'UKRAINE! UKRAINE!'while happily working to secure Ukraine's borders, not ours.'

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