Biden spoke with Zelenskyy, per WH, and 'shared that his administration will quickly provide significant new security assistance packages to meet Ukraine’s urgent battlefield and air defense needs as soon as the Senate passes' the foreign aid package.

'Drink more, tweet less. Get to know your colleagues in real life before trashing them on social media.' - departing Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wisconsin) congress.gov/118/crec/2024/…

Axel Springer's Trump years semafor.com/article/04/21/…

A Pentagon spox tells me that DOD 'is poised to respond with a package quickly after Congress passes the supplemental' but that 'it is premature to speculate on the contents of any package at this time.' Note the bill includes language mandating ATACMS 'as soon as practicable.'

Michael McCaul on ABC on Johnson and his decision to move Ukraine aid: 'He became the man who went from a district in Louisiana to the Speaker of the United States to also someone who had to look at the entire world and carry the burden of that and make the right decision.'

Final breakdown on Ukraine vote

101 Republicans voted for it.
112 Republicans voted against

210 Democrats voted for it
0 Democrats voted against it

Top three GOP leaders -- Johnson, Scalise and Emmer -- voted for it.
Elise Stefanik, conference chair, voted NO.

Ukraine aid passes House in a bipartisan vote, about six months after the White House submitted its request for $60 billion

Revised TikTok divestiture bill headed to the Senate

Today in Semafor: I speak to Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi about how the TikTok bill got fast tracked; Kadia Goba writes about Mike Johnson's unofficial bipartisan coalition; latest on Israel strike on Iran; and more news out of our World Economy Summit. semafor.com/newsletter/04/…

* BLINKEN SAYS PRIMARY CONTRIBUTOR TO RUSSIA'S DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE IN THIS MOMENT IS CHINA

* BLINKEN SAYS U.S. HAS SEEN CHINA SHARING MACHINE TOOLS, SEMICONDUCTORS, DUAL USE ITEMS WITH RUSSIA

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“It's been a helluva messy Congress, thats for sure,” House Financial Services Chair Patrick McHenry tells Liz Hoffman but adds “we’re getting to the right place eventually.” Says Ukraine and Israel aid should have been passed in December.

“We’ve seen a lot of data, but not all the data. It’s speculation still. Everyone’s guessing. Why should I guess, especially when you deal with medicine and science?” Becerra on whether COVID-19 emerged from a Chinese lab semafor.com/article/04/18/…

CANTWELL on House language re: TikTok bill: “I’m very happy that Speaker Johnson and House leaders incorporated my recommendation to extend the Byte Dance divestment period from six months to a year. ... I support this updated legislation.”

BIDEN on House bills: 'I strongly support this package to get critical support to Israel and Ukraine, provide desperately needed humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza, and bolster security and stability in the Indo-Pacific.'

The Ukraine bill released by House Republicans calls on Biden to send long-range ATACMS to Ukraine 'as soon as practicable.' It allows him to avoid transferring them if he makes a determination that doing so 'would be detrimental to the national security interests' of US

“I worry deeply, actually, about countries’ instincts to draw within,” Raimondo says at Semafor World Economic Summit. “We can’t close ourselves off from the world. That would be a bad thing ... even from China ... We don’t want to delink ourselves economically.”