US House of Representatives plans $61 billion to help Ukraine
Cairo: Hani Kamal El-Din
The Republicans of the American House of Representatives unveiled, Wednesday April 17, a project including an envelope of 61 billion dollars to help Ukraine. Two separate bills also provide more than $26 billion for Israel and several billion dollars for Taiwan. Entangled in partisan disputes, Congress has been struggling for months over the adoption of funds for kyiv, at war with Russia since February 2022.
The elected representatives of the American House of Representatives will vote on Saturday on four texts which release funds, the Republican president of the institution, Mike Johnson, announced on Wednesday. “This is a very important message that we are going to send to the world this week”, declared a little later, Mike Johnson, who has long blocked the sending of funds to Ukraine. If it is adopted by the Republican-majority House, the batch of texts will then be studied by the Democratic-majority Senate, before possibly arriving on Joe Biden’s desk for promulgation.
Bedroom “must adopt urgently” the proposed laws on new aid to Ukraine and Israel and on humanitarian aid for Gaza, for his part urged Joe Biden, in an article published Wednesday morning by the Wall Street Journal. “If both countries are fully capable of defending their own sovereignty, they depend on American aid to do so, including in arms. And we are at a pivotal moment”, writes the Democratic president. Wednesday evening, Joe Biden, in reaction to the aid amounts revealed, said he “very supportive” to the envelopes revealed by the Republicans in Congress.
Ukraine is running out of ammunition against Russia and American credits are exhausted. “Ukraine needs immediate measures to strengthen its air defense”, pleaded Volodymyr Zelensky on X with the head of NATO, after the strike which left 18 dead in Chernihiv on Wednesday. In February, a package of $60 billion in military and economic assistance for Ukraine was adopted in the Senate. But Republicans in the House of Representatives refused to examine the text, due, among other things, to a dispute over the issue of immigration.
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