Congress on Saturday moved to block new aid for Ukraine in its government spending deal, a rebuke to Kyiv with geopolitical reverberations that came despite a concerted lobbying push from senior Biden officials and the highest-ranking GOP senator.
Although the White House said Ukraine needed $20.6 billion in aid to fight Russia’s invasion, Speaker Kevin McCarthy stripped all funds for the U.S. ally from the government spending bill, under immense pressure from a GOP caucus that has increasingly turned against Biden’s handling of the war.
GOP support for Ukraine’s defense has been dropping precipitously with each House vote, and there is little reason to believe McCarthy will face any less resistance to supporting Kyiv if he tries to rally his conference next time he tries to do so. Democratic lawmakers fumed at the outcome, particularly because Senate Republicans supported $6 billion in aid.
The GOP leader had called White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Sept. 22 to let him know that the administration’s full $20.6 billion request for Ukraine was too much to ask for on a six-week stopgap spending bill, according to two Republican aides, who spoke on background to discuss the private talks. McConnell instructed Sullivan to see if administration officials could just transfer money from different accounts, but on Sept.
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