2024-04-24 04:00:34
He The United States Senate approved this Tuesday the package of 95 billion dollars in military aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, which would give the green light to sending the money following months of legislative blockade.
The measure was approved today by 75 votes in favor and 20 once morest.
The Senate has brought together in a single text four bills that the House of Representatives approved last Saturday.
On the one hand, 61 billion dollars in military aid for Ukraine, another 26,400 for Israel and 8,100 for Taiwan.
A fourth bill seeks to force TikTok’s Chinese ownership to sell the company within a year or face a ban in the United States.
“Finally, tonight, following more than six months of hard work, the United States sends a message to the entire world,” Chuck Schumer, Democratic leader in the US Senate, said following the vote.
According to Schumer, with this vote the US tells the world that “it will do everything possible to safeguard democracy.”
The White House has been asking the Legislature for months for joint approval of these military aid packages, but the opposition of Republican sectors to assistance to Ukraine has caused a long blockade.
A minority part of the Democratic group has opposed the aid package to Israel.
Iran’s attack on Israel two Saturdays ago caused the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives to lift its block on jointly approving foreign military aid packages.
Now all it will take is the signature of the president, Joe Biden, for money and weapons to begin to flow into the Ukrainian trenches. who have been begging the United States for help in the face of the advance of Russian forces for months.
Biden spoke by phone on Monday with the president of Ukraine, Volodymir Zelensky, who following the call and in a message on the social network
Since Russia invaded Ukraine two years ago, The United States has channeled military aid of more than $75 billion.
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