The House of Representatives The United States approved this Saturday a major aid plan for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. with 311 votes in favor and 112 against. US congressmen have voted affirmatively on the fate of a gigantic package of 95,000 million dollars.
The texts approved this Saturday are the fruit of months of bitter negotiations, of comings and goings from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to Washington and pressure from allies around the world. They even cost the previous Republican leader of the House of Representatives his job.
Ukraine’s defense financing is the key element. USA It has been kyiv’s main military support until now, but Congress has not approved an important package for its ally for almost a year and a half due to reluctance on the part of the Republican Party.
President Joe Biden’s Democratic Party is in favor of granting more aid to Ukraine, at war since Russian troops invaded its territory.
But Republicans, led by former President Donald Trump, are increasingly reluctant to finance a conflict that is bogged down.
In the middle of the election year, the issue had become a distance duel between Biden who aspires to a second term in the November elections, and Trump its main rival.