House passes Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan aid, potential TikTok ban

• The House passed four bills to provide aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, along with a measure to force TikTok-parent company ByteDance to sell the app.
• The four bills now head to the Senate for a vote, likely in the coming days.
• The House’s approval is a key step to end a long stalemate on the foreign aid, which was initially proposed by President Biden in October.

On Saturday, the House passed a series of bills to provide aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, along with a package that included forcing the Chinese company ByteDance to sell TikTok.

After a morning of debate on the House floor, the four bills will be wrapped into a single package and sent to the Senate for approval. After that, it will be sent to President Joe Biden to be signed into law.

"I understand that it is not a perfect piece of legislation," House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Saturday following the vote. "We would rather send bullets to the conflict overseas than our own boys, our troops. And I think this is an important moment and important opportunity to make that decision."

Johnson's decision to hold the vote came at a political risk, as hardline members of his party threatened to oust him. In March, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., filed a motion to vacate Johnson from his post, but she has yet to force a vote on the measure.

"As I've said many times, I don't walk around this building being worried about a motion to vacate," Johnson said Saturday. "I have to do my job."

Following the passage of the long-stalled foreign aid, Johnson received a flurry of public statements thanking him.

 "I want to thank Speaker Johnson, Leader Jeffries, and the bipartisan coalition of lawmakers in the House who voted to put our national security first,"