The US House of Representatives is set to hold a crucial vote on Saturday on a major aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan – and a possible ban of TikTok.
The votes on the $95 billion foreign aid and arms bills are expected to begin at 1pm (5pm GMT), and embattled Republican Speaker Mike Johnson will need Democratic votes to get them passed.
The bills are the product of months of acrimonious negotiations, pressure from US allies and repeated pleas for assistance from Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president.
Spending bills cost the last Republican speaker of the House his job, and funding for Ukraine has been at the heart of the partisan squabbling.
The United States has been the chief military backer of Ukraine in its war against Russia, but Congress has not approved large-scale funding for its ally for nearly a year and a half, mainly because of the bickering across the political aisle.
Joe Biden, the US president, and Democratic lawmakers in Congress have been pushing for a major new weapons package for Ukraine for months.