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House Speaker Mike Johnson’s $95 billion foreign aid proposal survived a key test vote, thanks to Democrats.
Democrats bucked party norms to support the plan through a procedural hurdle known as a "rule vote" after conservative foreign aid skeptics defected from Republicans to try to block the plan. It passed 316-94.
The rule vote now sets up debate on the four individual bills followed by amendment votes and four votes on passage sometime Saturday.
Three of the four bills fund Ukraine, Israel, and the Indo-Pacific. A fourth bill includes national security priorities like the House’s recently passed crackdown on TikTok’s ownership, as well as the REPO Act, which would liquidate seized Russian assets and give that funding to Ukraine.