22 Senate Republicans Side with Democrats to Pass Controversial $95 Billion Foreign Aid Bill

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A $95 billion foreign aid bill cleared the Senate early Tuesday and heads for an uncertain future in the House.

With 22 Republicans and 48 Democrats voting for the bill, it passed by a vote of 70-29 and included $60.1 billion for Ukraine, $14.1 billion for Israel, and $10 billion for humanitarian aid for civilians in war zones, which includes Gaza, according to The New York Times.

“It’s dead in the House,” Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri declared during overnight debate, according to The Hill.

But Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called passage of the bill essential.

“I know it’s become quite fashionable in some circles to disregard the global interests we have as a global power, to bemoan the responsibility of global leadership, to lament the commitment that has underpinned the longest drought of great power conflict in human history,” he said.

“This is idle work for idle minds. And it has no place in the United States Senate,” he said

According to the Senate roll call, McConnell was joined in supporting the bill by Republican Sens. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia,  John Thune and Mike Rounds of South Dakota, Bill Cassidy and John Kennedy of Louisiana, Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Roger Wicker of Mississippi, Susan Collins of Maine, Todd Young of Indiana, Mitt Romney of Utah, Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Thom Tillis of North Carolina, John Cornyn of Texas, John Boozman of Arkansas, Mike Crapo and James Risch of Idaho, John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, and Jerry Moran of Kansas.

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