On Tuesday, the US Senate approved a US $ 95.3 billion foreign aid bill for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, which had been put on hold on Parliament for several months.
In February this year, with the support of the two parties, the Senate passed a similar version. The bill was passed by 18 votes with 79 votes, reflecting the widespread support of the two parties.
In order to avoid the opposition of the Right -wing Republicans of the House of Representatives, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Republicans of Louisiana Mike Johnson adopted a roundabout and passed the bill on the weekend.He divides the bill into three items, and has different supporters for each country -each part -and add the fourth item, including measures to implement a new round of sanctions on Iran, and ask all ChinaSelling Tiktok, otherwise it will be disabled in the United States.After passing, all four items were merged into one bill to the Senate.
After the Senate's final approval, the bill will be sent to President Biden, and President Biden said he will sign the bill on Wednesday.
The following is the content of the foreign aid bill:
Provide 60.8 billion US dollars to Ukraine
Military funds provided to Ukraine account for a big head of the entire aid plan, with a total amount of $ 60.8 billion.A considerable part of it is used to "supplement the US defense inventory" and provide billions of dollars of funds for the purchase of US defense systems. For several months, Ukrainian officials have always stated that this is urgent.
The bill is basically the same as the first bill version of the Senate, but the House of Representatives added a requirement, that is, the Bayeon government provided more remote ATACMS missiles made from Kiev.Earlier, President Biden overcomes the long -term concerns of providing such weapons, allowing the Pentagon to secretly provide the ammunition version of this missile cluster to Ukraine.
In the House of Representatives, it includes another clause, which requires the president to seek Ukraine to repay US $ 10 billion in economic assistance. Former President Trump also supports this approach.assistance.However, the bill also allows the president to be exempted from these loans from 2026.
Provide $ 26.4 billion to Israel and other humanitarian assistance
The bill provided Israel with about $ 15 billion in military assistance, and the country is continuing to attack Hamas of Gasha and weighing how to respond to Iran's attack.The bill is given priority to Israel's defense capabilities, and provides more than $ 5 billion to supplement defense systems such as "iron dome", "David's cast stone" and "iron beam".Another $ 2.4 billion was used in the United States's current military operations in the region.
Another $ 9 billion is used for "global humanitarian assistance", including assistance to Gaza civilians.Like the Senate Act, the bill prohibits funds from flowing from the main United Nations institution to the main United Nations institution to provide assistance to Palestine Kasha, the United Nations Rebeling and Engineering Office of Eastern Palestine.For some Democrats with left -wing tendencies, it is not the focus of controversy to set up any conditions for military assistance. They are increasingly called for the Israeli government to modify the military strategy of Gaza.
Provide US $ 8.1 billion aid for Taiwan and other allies
The third part provides US $ 8.1 billion in assistance to other ally in Taiwan and the United States in the Indo -Pacific region to fight against China.The House of Representatives has a clause that allows Pentagon to quickly provide Taiwan with more offensive weapons, and to continue to establish alliances in the United States and Taiwan governments to prevent China from invading Taiwan and provide billions of dollars for the purchase of advanced US weapons technology.
A more acceptable bill
The fourth part of the aid plan was added by the House of Representatives, including several Republican priorities. Johnson combined them together so that the bill was easier to accept the members of his party.
One of them is to use the funds in Russian assets detained to offset the United States' assistance to Ukraine.Republicans who support the plan said the plan would ensure that Russian President Putin assume economic responsibility for the war.
American allies, including France and Germany, have always held doubts about the feasibility of the measure under international law.They have been promoting a solution that uses nearly 300 billion US dollars to be frozen Russian assets' interest income directly to Ukraine, which can be a guarantee in the form of a loan or a loan.
The bill also imposed sanctions on Iran and Russian officials, and further restricted the export of American technology used to manufacture Iranian drones.
TheAct also includes a legislation that requires the popular social media to apply Tiktok's parent company to sell the platform, otherwise it will face a ban in the United States.It is similar to a bill passed by the House last month.However, it includes an option that extended the last period of the sale from the original six months to nine months, and allowed the president to extend another 90 days when the sale made progress.
