By a 79-18 vote, the Senate passed a bill providing $95 billion in aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan as part of a package that also set a one-year deadline for Chinese government interests to sell the social media platform TikTok or face a ban in the US, the Associated Press reports.
The bill won support of some conservatives after around $10 billion in aid for Ukraine was converted to a form of a loan. Including the TikTok ban in a companion bill allowed some more conservatives to save face and support a bill they previously vowed to block. Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio–a senior Republican member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee–voted against the bill, which will now go to the Oval Office for President Biden’s signature.