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Speaker Mike Johnson will lead House Republicans in pushing three separate bills this week to send billions to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, DailyMail.com confirmed.
A fourth bill will reportedly include several measures such as requiring TikTok divest from its Chinese-owned parent company, an effort to obtain seized Russian assets, a lend-lease program for military aid to Ukraine and also loans for humanitarian aid.
All four bills would be lumped together under the same 'rule' to advance them to the House floor for final passage this week.
Democrats and Republican have remained at an impasse as the White House has made clear President Joe Biden does not support a package with aid for only Israel.
Instead, he is urging House Republicans to pass the Senate-passed $95 billion package with combined money for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific - a package that hardliners have balked at.
Johnson so far had remained coy about how he will address foreign aid, but called an emergency all-conference meeting on Monday to chart a path forward after Iran's attacks over the weekend.
The two parties have remained at an impasse as the White House has made clear President Joe Biden does not support a package with aid for only Israel
He tabled plans for 'appliance week,' where the House GOP would vote on messaging bills to push back on Biden's kitchen appliance regulations, so the House could work on legislation targeting Iran with sanctions and foreign aid for Israel.
Johnson put the Israel-only aid package on the House floor in February but it failed to garner the two-thirds majority it needed to pass under suspension.
'We're going to try again this week, and the details of that package are being put together right now,' he said. 'We're looking at the options and all these supplemental issues.'
The House passed a $14 billion aid package for Israel in October, but the deal was offset by cuts to IRS funding that led to its
