extension if the president determines there progress toward a sale. now, many in congress see the app as a national security the risk, but the company argues first amendment rights are at stake. and it plans to challenge measures two, ban it. now, president biden said previously he would sign off on a previous version of this bill. so it is likely if the senate goes ahead and passes it, he will approve this one joining us now is politics reporter stef kight from axios. good morning to you. let s start with this. $95,000,000,000.04 aid package. a wow, a bipartisan bill that finally passed. imagine that the fact that speaker mike johnson, i m he s getting a lot of praise for his courage to risk has political life, to get this bill on the floor and passed it really just underscores because he was really just doing his job, right. i mean, as speakers supposed to move bills and to the floor it highlights just the fact that we re in such
amara, viktor lauren fox. thank you, president biden praised the house approval of the $95 billion foreign aid package and a post on x, the president said that i urge the senate to quickly send the package to my desk. now the democratic majority senate is anticipated to pass the measure as soon as tuesday and then send it to president biden as he is asking for his signature or cnn s white house reporter, camila dechalus, joining us now, kamila that s righ amara, viktor. good morng, president biden put out a clear message saying that lawmakers coming together to pass his foreign aid bills just really sends this message about american leadership and it sends it t the globe. i want to read it just a qui statement that the president put out. he said, members of both parties already in the house voted to advance our national security interests and sends sends a clear message about the power of american leadership on the world stage at this critical inflection point, they came together to
answer history s call passing urgently needed national security legislation that i have fought for months to secure. and it s a reminder in this statement, the president biden has been calling for months for lawmakers to come together to pass additional aid to provide to countries like israel and ukraine. and even when he invited lawmakers to the white house on several occasions, he always meet shore to bring up the fact that he wanted them to pass a foreign aid to give to these countries that he feels that are in need. and it s in their best interests. and so he s really urgently now calling on senate to quickly pass this and send it to is acid can sign this into law amara viktor, back to you. all right. camila dechalus. thank you very much.& a final note on the house as we began to work, one measure moved washington closer to possibly we banning tiktok in the it would give the hugely popular social media platform about nine months to replace the current chinese parent company byted
really made this argument saying, hey, ukraine needs this aid. look at how they re losing a lot of ground in their own country. the military is to their fight against russia and that s due to the lack of funding. this would it be what biden considers a win because he s been pushing them to add these also said that he wants to make good on his commitment. the standby these countries and provide the aid this funding package would also provide at least $9.2 billion and humanitarian assistance. and that s another thing that the biden mission has been pushing so all around that they have just expressed this urgency to get something done and do it in a timely manner viktor amara, back to you, camila dechalus. four is there in wilmington. thank you. tensions are still rising in the middle east right now up next the latest on an early morning explosion in iraq, as lawmakers here in the are getting ready to hammer out an aid package good for israel bless donald trump. has the campaign trail