The Senate, the upper house of the US Congress, on Tuesday night approved a package of bills, which includes a bill for military aid to Ukraine in the amount of $61 billion.
The unusual four-bill package, worth $95 billion, also includes funds for Israel, security assistance for Taiwan and allies in the Indo-Pacific region, and measures that include sanctions, threats to ban the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok and the possible transfer of seized Russian assets to Ukraine . It also includes humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, Sudan and Haiti.
The adopted package contains threats to ban the Tiktok app throughout the US if it does not get rid of its Chinese parent company ByteDance. The package also provides $13 billion for Israel, which is at war with the Palestinian militant group Hamas, more than $9 billion in humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, Sudan and Haiti, and $8 billion in military aid to Taiwan.
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