In a 226-195 vote, the House of Representatives approved a security package sending new military aid to Ukraine and imposing sanctions on Russia.

18 Republicans voted with nearly every Democrat to approve the measure, defying President Trump.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) was the lone Democrat to vote against the legislation.

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House GOP leadership and the vast majority of Republicans opposed the legislation aimed at bolstering Ukraine’s defenses amid a surge in Russian missile and drone strikes as the conflict enters its fifth year.

The measure now heads to the Senate, where it faces an uphill battle to clear the chamber. The White House said the legislation would undermine President Donald Trump’s goal of ending the prolonged conflict and that he would veto the measure, according to a statement obtained by Fox News Digital.

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“The bill seeks to tie the President’s hands by mandating a wide-ranging U.S. response to the Russia-Ukraine war while adding hundreds of millions in unfunded authorizations,” the White House document reads, in part.

The security package would reaffirm U.S. support for Ukraine and NATO, authorize more than $1.5 billion in new security assistance and $8 billion in direct loans, and extend a Pentagon program that procures weapons and military equipment for Ukraine.

The legislation would also target the Kremlin’s energy profits, which are central to keeping Russia’s war effort going, as well as organizations and companies that do business with sanctioned Russian entities.

The White House warned that the legislation’s mandatory sanctions would “plunge the global economy into chaos.”

But Republicans who supported the measure said its passage should not be viewed as defying the president.

“I just voted against the Ukraine Support Act tonight. It sends over $9 billion of your dollars overseas, and includes $250 million for Radio Free Europe, a Cold War relic that benefits no American,” Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) commented.

Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) called the measure “unbelievable.”

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The Ukraine bill, led by Representative Gregory W. Meeks of New York, the top Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee, was introduced in April 2025 but languished after Republican leaders refused to take it up in committee and Speaker Mike Johnson blocked it from coming to the floor.

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Mr. Meeks turned to a discharge petition, a procedural move that allows lawmakers to circumvent the leadership and speed a bill to the floor if they collect signatures from a majority of House members. That required the backing of all Democrats and a small group of Republicans, a threshold reached last month when Representative Kevin Kiley of California, an independent who caucuses with Republicans, signed onto the petition. Two Republicans, Representatives Don Bacon of Nebraska and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, were already onboard, having broken with their party months earlier to back the effort.

The vote on Thursday drew even broader Republican support.

Ahead of the vote, Mr. Meeks told reporters that support for the measure signaled to the people of Ukraine that “the United States and Congress will stand and fight and work with you so that you preserve your democracy, your freedom and justice until Vladimir Putin is declared a war criminal and put away.”

The vote was the first time the House had approved significant financial support for Ukraine in more than two years. The last aid package, which Mr. Johnson put his job on the line to shepherd through the House, included $60 billion in security assistance for Kyiv.

Backers of the latest tranche of funding for the Ukrainians emphasized that an overwhelming majority of the funding was in the form of direct loans, something that Mr. Trump has said he favors over security assistance that would not require being paid back.

 

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