2023-12-20 05:03:45
US Congress will not vote on aid to Ukraine before 2024
The leaders of the American Senate noted, on Tuesday, the fact that the United States would not adopt the envelope of 61 billion dollars in aid to Ukraine, insisted on by kyiv and the White House, by the end of 2023.
“Negotiators are still working on some issues and we hope that their efforts will allow the Senate to act quickly on [cette rallonge]early next year »said Democrat Chuck Schumer and Republican Mitch McConnell in a joint statement.
The failure of Congress to vote for this envelope does not, however, sign the end of United States support for kyiv. American parliamentarians return to school on January 8, and the Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate have only stated their intention to validate this envelope, which includes a military, humanitarian and macroeconomic component.
It is in the House of Representatives, which must also approve these funds, that things become complicated. Its new president, Republican Mike Johnson, is not opposed, in principle, to extending American assistance, but claims that it is not sufficiently regulated.
“What the Biden administration seems to want is billions of additional dollars without adequate oversight, without any real strategy for victory”, he asserted following his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in mid-December. The conservative speaker also has to deal with the hard right of his party, parliamentarians who no longer want to send a single cent to Ukraine. These elected officials, close to former President Donald Trump, dismissed the last speaker only a few months ago, accusing him, among other things, of having concluded a « accord secret » on Ukraine with the Democrats.
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