After months of delays, the House of Representatives passed a foreign aid package that would send funding to Ukraine and Israel — and encompassed a ban on TikTok — in a Saturday vote, despite the vocal opposition from some far-right members of Congress to the former.
All 210 Democrats present for the vote sided in favor of the Ukraine aid bill to help the beleaguered nation currently at war with Russia, while 112 Republicans voted against it. The vote comes after intense pressure on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana), who faces threats of being removed from his post by a contingent of MAGA Republicans.
“This is the third betrayal by Mike Johnson,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) said to CNN on the steps outside Congress shortly after the vote, calling it a “foreign war package that does nothing to help America.”