The bills “will fund America’s national security interests and allies in Israel, the Indo-Pacific, and Ukraine,” House Speaker Mike Johnson wrote.
President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he strongly supports a proposal from House Speaker Mike Johnson to provide aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
Johnson is proposing that economic assistance for Kyiv be structured as forgivable loans, along with greater oversight on military funding, but the decision to support Ukraine at all has angered populist conservatives in the House and given new energy to a threat to remove him from the speaker's office.
The top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro, said in a statement that the three funding proposals for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan"mirror" a $95 billion foreign aid package that the Senate passed in February. The ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus posted on X that Johnson had was"surrendering the last opportunity we have to combat the border crisis."
"The United States must stand against Putin's war of aggression now as Ukraine's situation on the ground is critical," the lawmakers said in a statement.
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