Democrats stepped in to support bringing the aid package to the floor, in a remarkable breach of custom on a key vote that paved the way for its passage.

The House took a critical step on Friday toward approving a long-stalled package of aid to Ukraine, Israel and other American allies, as Democrats supplied the crucial votes to push the legislation past Republican opposition so that it could be considered on the floor.

The 316-94 vote cleared the way for the House to bring up the aid package, teeing up separate votes on Saturday on each of its parts. But passage of those measures, each of which enjoys bipartisan support from different coalitions, was not in doubt, making Friday’s action the key indicator that the legislation will prevail.

The rule for considering the bill — historically a straight party-line vote — passed with more Democratic than Republican support, but it also won a majority of G.O.P. votes, making it clear that despite a pocket of deep resistance from the far right, there is broad bipartisan backing for the $95.3 billion package.

The vote was an enormous victory in the long effort to fund to Ukraine as it battles against Russian aggression, a major priority of President Biden that has met with bitter resistance from the right. It was a triumph against the forces of isolationism within the G.O.P. and a major moment of bipartisan consensus in a Congress that for the past year has been mostly defined by its dysfunction.

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      It’s only happening because republicans wanted to pass an exclusive Israel support bill instead of this, and Biden said he’d veto it. Now they’ll pass Ukraine and Taiwan aid as a concession to funding Israel. Despicable.

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    Long overdue, but very good news! Ukraine needs more support now more than ever.

    I swear some Republicans Representatives would not consider feeding their kids if they couldn’t also table some anti-LGBT, anti-immigration or anti-abortion measure at the same time.

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      I swear some Republicans Representatives would not consider feeding their kids if they couldn’t also table some anti-LGBT, anti-immigration or anti-abortion measure at the same time.

      You need more LGBT friends; this is so common there are memes about it everywhere

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    The main republican objection seems to be that it needs to include “border security”, ignoring that they nuked a border bill with everything they wanted in it a few months ago because Trump asked them to. When it comes time to put up or shut up, they refuse to put up and don’t have the decency to shut up. They must think their voters are incredibly stupid.

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    I can’t begin to describe how relieving it is to hear this news. Ukraine has long needed more support from us and I’m glad it’s finally happening.

    Hopefully this is enough to make it to elections and hopefully we can sort out some of our problems with crazy.

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    Thank god that the democrats stepped in and voted. The republicans still can’t muzzle their crazies.

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    it’s this the one where they ban social media that promotes an anti genocide, pro peace agenda or was that the other one?

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      Yin and yang; first they get the missiles and then they get to ban anyone saying no to the missiles