Pre-dawn vote comes amid growing doubts about fate of legislation in Republican-controlled House of Representatives

The Democratic-led US Senate has voted to pass a $95.34bn aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, amid growing doubts about the legislation’s fate in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.

In a pre-dawn vote, lawmakers cleared the 60-vote threshold to send the legislation on to the House.

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