Biden Signs $95 Billion Foreign-Aid Package, Says Weapons Will Flow to Ukraine in ‘Next Few Hours’

President Joe Biden signed into law on Wednesday a $95 billion foreign-aid package to support U.S. allies hours after the legislation easily passed the Senate.

Biden celebrated the bipartisan national-security package for providing crucial aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, while promoting American leadership on the world stage.

“It’s a good day for America, it’s a good day for Europe, and it’s a good day for world peace, for real, it’s consequential” Biden said Wednesday morning. “It gives vital support to America’s partners so they can defend themselves against threats to their sovereignty, and the lives and freedom of their citizens,” Biden asserted.

The president also lamented the Capitol Hill gridlock that prevented the legislation from passing for months, calling out Republican skeptics of Ukraine aid.

“For months, while MAGA Republicans were blocking aid, Ukraine has been running out of artillery shells and ammunition. Meanwhile, Putin’s friends keep giving him, keeping him well supplied,” Biden stated.

Biden said the U.S. will be sending equipment to Ukraine “in the next few hours,” including air-defense systems, artillery munitions, and armored vehicles. Biden also touted the positive effect the legislation will have on U.S. weapons manufacturers, which will be tasked with replenishing the expended aid.

Immediately after Biden’s signature, the Pentagon announced $1 billion of military assistance to Ukraine from the Presidential Drawdown Authority.

Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, ammunition for HIMARS rocket systems, 155mm artillery rounds, 60mm mortary rounds, and Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles, are among the U.S. capabilities being provided to Ukraine, the Pentagon said.

The foreign-aid legislation will send roughly $60 billion in aid to Ukraine, with $23 billion being used to replenish U.S. weapons stockpiles and $11 billion to fund U.S. military operations in the surrounding area.

Israel will receive $26 billion including $4.4 billion to fund its Iron Dome and David’s Sling missile defenses. Over $9 billion of the Israel aid will go towards humanitarian relief.

Additionally, the national-security package contains a provision mandating TikTok’s Chinese parent company divest from the app over the next nine months to a year, or otherwise the platform will be banned.

“This unconstitutional law is a TikTok ban, and we will challenge it in court. We believe the facts and the law are clearly on our side, and we will ultimately prevail,” TikTok said in a statement.

TikTok parent company ByteDance’s ties to the Chinese Communist Party received significant bipartisan scrutiny prior to the legislation’s passage because of national-security concerns given the platform’s enormous reach with young Americans.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) advocated strongly for the bipartisan legislation following Iran’s barrage of drones and missiles towards Israel earlier this month. Israel successfully defended itself against the Iranian attack in part due to support from the U.S. and other allies.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R., Ga.) and other Republican hardliners threatened to use a motion to vacate to oust Speaker Johnson for pushing Ukraine aid through and relying on Democratic votes. The push to remove Johnson will not have the backing of former president Donald Trump, who reiterated his support for Johnson as the national-security package made its way to the senate.

The Reaganite wing of the GOP strongly supported the legislation alongside national-security hawks in the Democratic party. Far-left lawmakers in the Democratic party ferociously opposed U.S. support for Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas and the TikTok divestment component of the legislation.