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NPR News: 04-20-2024 7PM EDT

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🗓️ 20 April 2024

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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbs.

0:21.0

In a rare Saturday session, the House today passed a $95 billion series of foreign

0:26.7

aid bills with money for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, and it had bipartisan support.

0:33.0

Democratic Congressman Hakeem Jeffries is the House Minority Leader.

0:37.0

We have a responsibility not as Democrats or Republicans, but as Americans to do what is necessary to defend democracy

0:47.2

wherever it is at risk and the best interests of the free world.

0:54.0

Foreign Affairs Chair Republican Congressman Michael McCall said the eyes of the world are on the U.S.

1:00.0

Putin is watching us.

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Chairman she is watching us. us. Chairman She is watching us.

1:04.8

And the Iator is watching us.

1:08.0

Now is the time to act.

1:10.3

Not everyone was on board though.

1:11.9

Some Republicans said the U.S. should focus on its own problems, especially the southern U.S. border.

1:17.0

This measure now heads to the Senate.

1:19.0

And that package of foreign aid bills included a measure that would force

1:23.4

Tik-Tok to be sold by its Chinese owner or be banned nationwide.

1:28.3

And peers Bobby Allen has more.

1:30.3

This is the second time the House has taken aim at Tik-Tok this year, but this time is different.

1:36.0

By tying the sell or be banned language to a high-stakes foreign aid package, it essentially fast-tracks the bill. The Senate will likely advance the

1:43.7

measure and President Biden is expected to sign it. Tik-Dok is used by half of

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