The White House has asked Congress for $6.4 billion “for the Ukrainian crisis,” Bloomberg reports.
“The White House has asked Congress for $6.4 billion for the Ukrainian crisis,” the agency’s correspondent said on Twitter.
She did not provide details.
According to the agency, the administration is asking for appropriations to support Ukraine and other countries of Eastern Europe, this will require 2.9 billion, and for the needs of the Pentagon – 3.5 billion.
According to the same data, over the past year, the United States provided Ukraine with $650 million in security support and $52 million in humanitarian aid.
Financing is proposed to be adopted by an amendment to the decision on the budget, which legislators must accept before March 11. Congress did not pass the budget for 2022, so the extension of US government funding has been put to the vote several times since last October. Sources of the agency say that the amount can be specified.
Lawmakers already have $1.5 trillion to fund the government after the current deadline, the report said. The first version of the document, according to the agency, contained a request for $757 million in aid to Ukraine, including $400 million through defense support programs. Now the amount has grown, the agency states.