The President of the United States, Joe Biden, called on Congress this Monday to pass “now” the bill worth 95 billion dollars with aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, which has been pushed into the House for months by the resistance of the Republican Party had stalled.
“Congress must approve this funding. You have to do it now,” Biden told media at the start of his meeting with Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala in the Oval Office of the White House.
Biden’s comments came after the Iranian attack on Israel led House Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican, to do an about-face and say he would allow a vote on aid to Israel this week, although he did not clarify whether it would be Aid acts The agreement with Ukraine, which some Republican hardliners reject, will also be voted on.
