The House Rules Committee approved a rule by nine votes to three on Thursday to move a $95.3 billion foreign aid package to the floor for a vote.
Republicans and Democrats voted together to approve a rule to debate foreign aid bills, in what has been described as an 'incredibly rare' move.The House Rules Committee approved a rule late Thursday to move a long-debated $95.3 billion foreign aid package to the floor for a vote.The rule was passed by nine votes to three, with all the dissent coming from Republicans.The ContextCongress has for months been wrangling over an aid package, approved by the Senate in March.
What We KnowThe House will take up the aid package as three separate aid bills for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific region and a fourth one that includes a TikTok ban and other national security priorities; they will be stitched together in one measure.Seven amendments will be considered in the rule.The Republicans who voted against the rule were Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie, Chip Roy of Texas, and South Carolina Republican Ralph Norman.
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