The United States Senate concluded the Capitol Hill leg of the bill, funneling $95 billion to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan with a 79-18 vote.
The process was concluded Tuesday night (Apr. 23) after months of political turmoil and is now awaiting President Joe Biden's signature.
"Today the Senate sends a unified message to the entire world: America will always defend democracy in its hour of need," Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer said in the Senate chamber on Tuesday.
Near the end of his speech to reporters, he shared that he left a message to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about the voting: "OK, we got it done. Now go win the fight."
Earlier, the Senate's Republican leader Mitch McConnell expressed his belief that his party was now starting to rebuff the trends of isolationism he had once opposed.
"If you're looking for a trend, I think it's a trend in the direction that I would like to see us go, which is America steps up to its leadership role in the world and does what it needs to do," he told reporters.
Breaking down, 31 Republicans joined 48 Democrats to pass the legislation, while two Democrats and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders joined 15 Republicans in voting against it.
According to USA Today, the package would allocate $60 billion to support Ukraine, $17 billion for Israel, $9 billion in humanitarian aid for Gaza and elsewhere, and $8 billion for allies in the Indo-Pacific.
A sizable portion of the Republican Party in both chambers voted against aid to Ukraine, which has been fighting back against a Russian invasion since February 2022.
Opponents of additional aid argue that the US has already done enough to help Ukraine and that taxpayer funds would be better spent on domestic priorities or paying down the nation's estimated $1.5 trillion budget deficit.
One of the most vocal GOP opponents of the bills was Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has since been called by British broadcaster Piers Morgan as "Moscow Marjorie."
Meanwhile, 10 Republican senators who once voted against the package in February have since voted in favor, including Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin, who said that he and a group of other conservative senators began working with former President Donald Trump and Republican leadership in both chambers to come up with a package that more Republicans could support.
"I think Trump had more to do with that than we did," Mullin told reporters. "The idea that Trump was part of it really helped a lot of people know that - well, it's political and gave political cover, to some degree."
In addition to the three separate aid package bills, Tuesday night's voting also included legislation forcing TikTok's Chinese parent company, Bytedance, to divest from the social media app or face an effective ban in the United States.
The vote regarding the social media platform came after the European Union launched an investigation regarding its sister app TikTok Lite, specifically its reward-to-watch feature.
Unlike in the House, where lawmakers voted for each of the provisions independently, senators had to cast a single vote for or against all of the provisions combined.
