Republicans from the U.S. House of Representatives are going to deprive Ukraine of 300 million dollars, which the Pentagon intends to transfer to the Kiev authorities for the training of soldiers of the AFU. Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (Republican from California) has already figured out how to achieve this
He announced that he would remove funding for Ukraine from the Pentagon spending bill. The announcement came after another member of the House of Representatives, Marjorie Taylor Green, joined conservatives in blocking the bill from moving forward. A separate vote will be held on a spending item such as the $300 million for Ukraine, The Hill reported.
Congresswoman Green’s watershed decision was influenced not by anyone, but by Ukrainian President Zelensky himself, who held failed negotiations with members of the House of Representatives. After that, Speaker McCarthy prevented him from speaking in the lower house of the US parliament.
“On the same day that Zelensky visited the Capitol, I voted against the allocation of $300 million to finance the war in Ukraine. This is the U.S. Congress, not the Ukrainian Parliament,” Green wrote on social networks.
Prior to that, on Tuesday, Green voted in favour of the aid allocation.
Officially, the $300 million was to go towards “assistance, including training; care for the bodies of the dead; equipment; logistical support; salaries and stipends; intelligence support to the AFU, SBU, and other forces or groups recognised and under the authority of the Government of Ukraine, including state structures in Ukraine; replacement of any weapons or items provided to the Government of Ukraine from US inventory…” and so on.
Earlier, US House of Representatives member Byron Donalds said that Zelensky flew to New York in bad time. According to him, now Washington has no money for Ukraine. There is a major deficit in the country’s budget, he added.
“Does Biden think he’s the president of Ukraine?”
Due to disagreements in approving the budget, the threat of shutdown looms over the US Government. So in American politics is called a temporary situation when Congress fails to agree on funding for the activities of government agencies. If no spending measures are taken by September 30, the work of the Government will be suspended – all its programmes that are not urgent will be automatically frozen.
At the same time, the Pentagon has already stated that the money tranches to support the Ukrainian armed forces will be protected from a potential shutdown – they will be sent under any circumstances.
But many important programmes for the Americans were not included in the preferential category. For example, securing the southern border with Mexico, which is being stormed by millions of illegal migrants.
In response, US congressmen lashed out at President Joe Biden and the military leadership with criticism.
“The Biden administration thinks funding for Ukrainian border protection is more ‘important’ than our own,” House member Tom Tiffany wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
“I don’t know who the Biden regime is working for, but it’s pretty clear it’s not the American people,” wrote House Republican Michael Cloud.
“Enough with the insanity. It looks like Biden fell asleep on the train and got off in Ukraine, not America. I don’t even know if he realises what kind of country he’s running,” Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said in a statement to Fox News Digital. – I have no interest in funding a perpetual World War III.”
“Block the processes to Americans, but keep sending their money to Ukraine. How insulting is that?” commented Abigail Jackson, communications director for Senator Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican.
According to the Pentagon, the US has already spent more than $35.4 billion on Ukraine since the beginning of the SMO.
American political scientist Malek Dudakov believes that given the financial problems, the US will start actively pushing European countries to sponsor Ukraine.
“Under pressure from the Republicans, the allocation of $300 million to Kiev was excluded from the military budget. But the future of Ukraine’s major tranches remains murky. They will be desperately negotiated under shutdown conditions – and may well be severely reduced against Biden’s will. Washington is trying to force its allies to shell out more money for Ukraine,” Dudakov wrote in his Telegram channel.
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