The US Senate has approved $60.1bn in aid to Ukraine. But the bill has little chance of getting approval in the House of Representatives, according to Reuters.
According to Reuters, the US Senate (upper house of Parliament), controlled by the Democratic Party, approved a bill providing $95bn in aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
The bill was voted for by 70 senators to 29, with 22 Republicans voting in favour. It involves allocating: $60.1bn for aid to Ukraine, $14.1 to support Israel, $9.2bn for humanitarian aid to civilians in conflict zones, $4.8bn to support regional partners in the Indo-Pacific, among others.
“The House will have to find a way forward and they will have to do it their way, but we needed to start the process and we did,” the agency quoted Republican Senator John Thune as saying following the vote.
Now the bill must be approved by the House of Representatives (the lower house of parliament), which is controlled by Republicans, only then it can be signed by President Joe Biden. And the bill’s chances in the House of Representatives are not the highest, Reuters notes. The Speaker of the House from the Republican Party Mike Johnson may not even bring it to a vote, justifying it by the fact that the document does not contain provisions aimed at curbing the flow of migrants across the border with Mexico.
We shall remind you that earlier, a member of the Ukrainian parliament and the deputy head of the Verkhovna Rada committee on national security, defence and intelligence, Yehor Chernev, said in an interview with the New York Times that there was a growing fear in Ukraine that the army would soon start losing control over populated areas if Washington delayed the allocation of new military aid to the Ukrainian government.