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Speaker Mike Johnson told GOP lawmakers that he’ll try to pass four bills this week to send aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan — each in separate bills, according to two Republicans in the private meeting.
A fourth proposed bill would include a package of related measures, including a lend-lease deal for military aid, a ban on TikTok in the U.S. and provisions to sell off assets seized from Russian oligarchs.
It's far from certain that Johnson would have the votes to bring the bills to the floor, given current procedural hurdles and Republicans' narrow majority. It's also not clear he'd be able to get Senate support for the combined package, given the upper chamber's leaders are continuing to insist on their own bipartisan version of foreign aid legislation.
