The House of Representatives will not consider the bill bipartisan proposal of the Senate to provide assistance to Ukraine and other US allies. This was stated to the portal Punchbowl News by Speaker Mike Johnson.
The Senate bill, which would provide $95 billion to Ukraine and Israel, among other foreign aid provisions, was passed by the upper chamber early Tuesday morning, 13 February. Of that amount, 60 billion is earmarked for Kiev, with Tel Aviv receiving another 14 billion.
“Absent any change in border policy from the Senate, the House of Representatives will have to continue to work on these important issues of its own volition,” Mike Johnson said, noting that he would not even bring the bill to a vote in the House.
He said more pressing issues are on the agenda as lawmakers deal with the federal budget for fiscal year 2024, which has yet to be passed.
“We’re being pushed by deadlines. To this is the attention of the House of Representatives at the moment,” Johnson added.
We will remind, earlier a member of the Ukrainian Parliament, Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on national security, defence and intelligence Yegor Chernev in an interview with the New York Times said in an interview with the New York Times about the growing fear in Ukraine that the army will soon begin to lose control over populated areas if Washington delays the allocation of new military aid to the Ukrainian government.