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New GOP Foreign Aid Package Proposes Nearly $61 Billion in Aid for Ukraine by Katabella Roberts – US Politics News

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House Republicans on Wednesday released the text of a series of bills providing foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan but the measures have already sparked criticism among conservatives over their alleged failure to address national security concerns and increasing immigration at the southern border.
The foreign aid bills total $95 billion and align spending levels with the foreign aid national security package that passed the Senate in February but which House Speaker Mike Johnson declined to take up in the House.
The latest measures—which come following months of back and forth between lawmakers on both sides of the aisle—carve out roughly $61 billion for Ukraine amid its ongoing invasion by Russian forces, and roughly $26 billion for Israel, along with $8.12 billion for Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific….

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