President Biden will ask Congress to approve a further $13 billion in safety funding for Ukraine later Thursday, a supply advised The Related Press.
Biden was extensively anticipated to make a request for extra Ukraine assist Thursday afternoon. The Biden administration can also be anticipated to request $12 billion to refill federal catastrophe aid funds.
If accredited, the extra Ukraine funding will set the entire U.S. contributions to the nation’s warfare effort at greater than $123 billion.
The request comes as many People and a few members of Congress have gotten extra skeptical of huge funding grants for Ukraine.
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President Biden will ask Congress to approve a further $13 billion in safety funding for Ukraine later Thursday, a supply tells The Related Press. (REUTERS/Gleb Garanich)
Biden final requested a serious Ukraine funding drop in November 2022, and Congress agreed to ship greater than he requested for. The Republican-led Home of Representatives might pose a risk to such a breezy approval this time.
“It’s positively a really large level of competition,” a senior Home GOP aide advised Fox Information Digital of the funding request on Wednesday.
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Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., has additionally promised his slim majority that he wouldn’t convey a supplemental Ukraine funding invoice to the ground. Many conservatives, nonetheless bristling from McCarthy’s debt restrict cope with President Biden, have been vocally against giving Kyiv extra money with out extra accountability.
President Biden final requested a serious Ukraine funding drop in November 2022, and Congress agreed to ship greater than he requested for. Nevertheless, the Republican-led Home of Representatives might pose a risk to such a breezy approval this time. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Pictures)
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Biden’s funding push comes as Ukraine is constant to mount a counteroffensive in opposition to the Russian invaders. Ukrainian troops have so for discovered little success, nevertheless, stymied by minefields and entrenched Russian forces.
Ukraine’s offensive depends virtually completely on Western-provided tools, together with German-made Leopard II tanks and U.S.-provided artillery and air defenses. (getty)
The nation’s offensive depends virtually completely on Western-provided tools, together with German-made Leopard II tanks and U.S.-provided artillery and air defenses.
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The U.S. remains to be working to supply M1 Abrams tanks, and Ukrainian pilots are additionally being educated to function F-16 fighter jets.
Fox Information’ Elizabeth Elkind and The Related Press contributed to this report.
