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The House has passed a more than $60 billion bill to increase military aid to Ukraine.
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It’s part of a larger foreign aid package that is likely to pass the Senate and be signed into law.
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112 Republicans voted against it — the most ever and a majority in the GOP conference.
The House of Representatives on Saturday passed a bill worth more than $60 billion to provide military and economic aid to Ukraine.
A solid majority of Republicans voted against the bill, which passed by a vote of 311 to 112. 101 Republicans voted for it, and one Republican, Rep. Dan Meuser of Pennsylvania, voted “present.”
The Ukraine aid bill was introduced after months of delay and despite fierce opposition from the far right, including a threat from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to call a vote to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson if he would allow such a vote.
Below Johnson’s unconventional planThe Ukraine bill will be sent to the Senate as part of a package that includes aid to Israel and Taiwan and a third bill that forces a sale of TikTok and allows the United States to confiscate Russian assets. Each component received its own vote in the House on Saturday.
The bill is widely expected to pass the Senate in the coming days, as it generally reflects a $95.3 billion national security bill adopted by the upper house in February. President Joe Biden has pledged to sign it.
Saturday’s vote marked the first time the House approved billions of dollars in aid to Ukraine since December 2022, when Democrats still controlled the chamber.
In the two years since the Russian invasion, opposition to aid to Ukraine has grown from bangs position to a majority view among GOP House lawmakers. Many argue that the money should be spent domestically or that policy changes at the U.S.-Mexico border should take priority.
The new aid injection comes at a time decisive moment for Ukrainewhich faces a shortage of ammunition and insufficient air defenses.
Because of the move, Johnson could face a vote on his ouster in the coming weeks. The GOP president, however, has become more willing to confront the threat from the right, and Democrats have suggested they were ready to protect him of an ouster effort if he allowed a vote on aid to Ukraine.
“If I operated out of fear of a motion to leave, I would never be able to do my job,” Johnson told reporters this week. “History judges us for what we do. We are currently living in a critical period.”
here are the 112 House Republicans who voted against the bill:
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