The Senate on Tuesday night passed a package to deliver $95 billion in foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, a bipartisan win months in the making. The package also gives TikTok’s Chinese parent, ByteDance, 270 days to sell TikTok. Failure to do so would lead to significant consequences, TikTok would be prohibited from US app stores and from internet hosting services that support it. The package was approved 79-18. Thirty-one Republicans joined with 48 Democrats to pass the legislation. That’s nine more Republicans than supported the aid package when the Senate last considered it in February. Two Democrats, Senators Jeff Merkley (Oregon) and Peter Welch (Vermont) as well as independent Senator Bernie Sanders (Vermont) voted against the legislation along with 15 Republicans. President Joe Biden signed the package this morning.
The Senate now stands adjourned until a pro forma session only with no business conducted on Friday, April 26th at 10:00 A.M. When the Senate adjourns on April 26th it will next convene at 3:00 P.M. on Tuesday, April 30th when it will take up a motion to invoke cloture on the nomination of Georgia N. Alexakis to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois.
The House will reconvene on Monday, April 29th.
