How the Senate passed the foreign aid package

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🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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The Senate passed the much-anticipated foreign aid package Tuesday night. Anna Palmer goes into what happened behind the scenes to make that happen. Plus: A look at what senior State Department staffers thought during the messy withdrawal from Afghanistan. Want more in-depth daily coverage from Congress? Subscribe to our free Punchbowl News AM newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.5	Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punchable News. It's Wednesday, April 24th, 2024.
0:55.0	Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day, number one, inside the effort to pass Ukraine and Israel funding in the Senate. Number two, we've got some news behind the scenes of the U.S. pullout
1:00.4	of Afghanistan. And number three, Speaker Mike Johnson, heads to Columbia University.
1:07.3	All right, let's get into it. We have a jam-packed Punchable News AM newsletter this morning.
1:14.3	Looking at the pact between Schumer and Mitch McConnell as they locked arms to pass the foreign aid package.
1:23.3	Late Tuesday night, the Senate overwhelmingly passed a $95 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, finally bringing to an end Congress's month-long standoff over Ukraine aid.
1:36.6	The legislation also requires TikTok to divest from its Chinese parent company, bite dance within a year or face a U.S. ban, and it authorizes the
1:46.4	seizure of Russian sovereign assets to be used for Ukraine's reconstruction. Here's how the vote
1:52.7	shook out. It was 79 to 18, which sends the massive national security package to President
1:59.7	Joe Biden's desk.
2:01.8	It's interesting.
2:02.5	31 Republicans voted for the bill this time compared to just 22 who supported a similar
2:09.0	version back in February.
2:12.2	Senate Republican Conference Chair John Barrasso was the only member of the GOP leadership
2:17.1	to oppose it.
2:18.5	There were three Republicans who were absent, Senators Rand Paul, Tommy Tuberville, and Tim Scott.
2:24.8	Biden said he'd sign the legislation today so that arms shipments to Ukrainian forces could begin this week.
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