The US Senate, the upper house of Congress in Washington, approved a $95 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan on Wednesday, which now goes to the House of Representatives where it faces an uncertain fate, Reuters reported.

The package includes $60 billion in aid for Ukraine, $14.1 billion for Israel and $4.8 billion for Taiwan and other US partners in the Indo-Pacific region, CNN reports.

The passage of the aid package for Washington’s foreign partners came after Republicans in the US Congress delayed its approval for months, saying they would give it the green light only after provisions related to solving the illegal immigration crisis were added. The United States.

But last week, Republican senators rejected a package agreed by their Democratic counterparts, again throwing up the prospect of unblocking aid to Ukraine, which faces increasingly vigorous Russian military attacks on the country’s eastern front.

In the wake of this new setback, Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate Minority Leader, and Chuck Scamer, the Democratic leader of the Senate, have proposed splitting the funding package into two separate parts: one for foreign aid and one for immigration, one of the hot topics of the election campaign. in the USA.

The initial package was proposed last October by the White House as aid that President Joe Biden’s administration could provide to Ukraine without the support of Congress ran out of funding sources.

The news is updated.