Voting has ended for the fourth and final of the foreign aid packages as of todays very rare saturday session, there in us House Of Representatives. And you look at the toll those 366258 in favor of passage of this 26 israel aid package, 17 billion of it would go to offensive and defensive weapons for israel, 9 billion in humanitarian an aid for gaza. Of course, we still have to hear them officially say that this has been passed, but manu raju, back with this, theyre outside outside there on capitol hill. They have four items today to accomplish. Checkmark on three of them. Youve got to National Security aid package thats been approved the ukraine package approved and money for the indopacific region and allies that of a taiwan as well so this seemingly was embraced by a majority. Theyre just looking at the tally this was to be expected for Israel Package yeah, there was still some opposition and then as you say, it looks like this vote is not yet finalized yet. Im probably going to cl
House lawmakers moments ago passed foreign aid bills to support ukraine and taiwan. Right now voting is underway on aid to israel. But at any moment the house and may vote on a Measure Calling for the House Speakers job over that aid to ukraine. What hello Everyone Welcome to foxs life i arthel neville. Bill im bill melugin peru got a lot going on today eric shawn is on assignment lets get right to it with chad pergram. Hes joining us live on capitol hill. What is going on . Works what is going on over the past couple of minutes very busy. Right now they are passing the bill to aid israel. This is a final vote in the series a few minutes ago. They approved 61 billion to ukraine. You had a lot of Democrat Supporters waving ukrainian flags on the house floor. That is against a quorum. They were admonished by mark who is a republican from new york who was presiding. 366 devoted to getting close to this not that many days of the board 58 but there are a lot more republican for this bill th
that house as a number of important features. it provides for greater accountability over ukraine aid, it forces an end game strategy for war. it includes a loan instrument of the foreign aid to ukraine and the rico act to ensure russian assets pay for part of the bill. unlike the senate bill, the loan system itself is a house innovation and allows for much needed insight. 80% of the ukraine funding will go to the replenishment of american weapons and stocks. our facilities and our operations. it also includes tough measures and sanctions on iran and russia and china at which most of the american people understand that s a necessity in a very important thing. our process and the and ensured each member was able to consider the individual supplemental elements on their own merits which is exactly how the house is supposed to work.
number of features, providing greater accountability and forces an end game strategy and includes a loan instrument of the the foreign loan and ensures russian assets pay for part of the bill. the loan system itself is a house innovation and allows for much needed insight. 80% of the ukraine funding will go to the replennishment of american weapons and stocks and our facilities and our operations. it also includes tough measures and sanctions on iran and russia and china which most of the american people understand is a necess and important thing. our process ensured that each member was able to consider each of the elements on their own merits which is how the house is supposed to work. i know there are critics of the legislation. i understand that. it is not a perfect piece of legislation.
have had the same same outcome we gave our members of voice. we gave them a chance. we gave them a better process and ultimately a much better policy. unlike the senate s blank check, the house legislation has a number of very important features. it provides for greater accountability over ukraine aid it forces an end-game strategy for the ukraine war and includes a loan instrument of this foreign aid to ukraine. and the repo act to ensure that russian assets pay for part of the bill and unlike the senate s bill the loan system itself is a house innovation. and allows for much needed inside. now remember that 80% of the ukraine funding will go to the replenishment of american weapons and stocks and our facilities and our operations it also includes tough measures and sanctions on iran and russia and china, which most of the american people understand is a necessity in a very important