Former US President Donald Trump, amid the discussion of the bill on financing Ukraine, proposed to transfer all foreign aid into the format of loans.
“From now on and from now on – do you hear me, Senate? – no funds in the form of foreign aid should be provided to any foreign country except in the form of a loan – not gratuitously,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
According to Trump, the loan can be made on extremely favourable terms with no interest and a certain term, but it must be a loan.
“The US should not be stupid anymore,” the politician emphasised.
Earlier, a bill to provide aid to Ukraine and Israel without finances for border protection passed a procedural vote in the US Senate.
US Senator Mike Lee spoke for four hours non-stop from the rostrum of the upper house of Congress, protesting against the bill on aid to Ukraine.