Before go to harrys. Com slash a shave to claim your 7 trial im pete muntean at Reagan National airport. This is cnn you are in the cnn newsroom. Im Alex Marquardt and washington. Thank you very much for joining us. We begin with a pivotal vote on capitol hill after months of delays and political wrangling rare saturday session today, house lawmakers passed a 95 billion foreign aid package for israel, ukraine, and taiwan. Republican Speaker Mike Johnson was finally able to advance the bills through congress with the help and must be noted of democrats. Its a move that could cost him his job as some hardliners his party of threatened to introduce a measure to remove him from his speakership the senate is now set to take up that aid package on tuesday, President Biden now urging senators to send the legislation to his desk quickly so that he can sayyed them into law, quote right away. Lets get straight to our correspondence in both jerusalem and kyiv two countries set to benefit directly
There has been a big package on immigration. oh, six, in the senate, 2013 in the senate, tougher border security was paired with some pathway to legalization for undocumented people here, none of that was there in this bill. i mean, eight basically only went in the direction republicans wanted, but not as far as they want it. and ultimately they decided they didn t want to do that i mean, i would say what was interesting about this vote is it? it reflected, but didn t fully express how divided each party is over these issues. i mean, the fact that a majority of house republicans, again, as they did last fall as a majority of senate republicans did in february voted against the ukraine aid really isn t historic kind of inflection point that says the international is weighing of the republican party now the subordinate minority in this kind of trump coalition and their influences likely, more likely to diminish than to increase. i mean, one of the senate republicans noted that virtually