The House overwhelmingly passed a national security supplemental package that combines multiple pieces of legislation seeking to bolster U.S. security as well as force sanctions on Iran after an attack on Israel last weekend.
Lawmakers voted 360-58 to advance the 21st Century Peace through Strength Act, one of the bills in Speaker Mike Johnson’s four-pronged foreign aid packagebeing voted on by the House on Saturday. The other three bills provide funds to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, while the fourth bill focused solely on strengthening U.S. national security.
“In order to truly confront the generational threat posed by the unholy alliance of Russia, China, and Iran, we need to make substantive policy changes in addition to providing critical security assistance to our partners and investing in our defense industrial base,” Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) said in a statement ahead of the vote. “The time to pass this is now — we cannot wait anymore.”
The legislation includes a number of bills that had already garnered support from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, including a revised TikTok clampdown that passed the lower chamber last month but stalled in the Senate.
The original version would have forced Chinese parent company ByteDance to divest in the social media platform within six months, but the updated version would extend the timeline to up to a year. Without the forced sale, TikTok downloads would be prevented in app stores.
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