He United States Senate adopted this Tuesday morning a package of measures related to national security, which also includes aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, However, due to the foreseeable veto of the Republican-dominated House of Representatives, there is little chance that the text will be passed. Senators supported the bill with 70 yes and 29 no votes after Republicans were initially cautious in the hope that border security measures would be included, as former President Donald Trump, among others, had called for.
The package includes more than $95 billion in aid, two-thirds of which, about $60 billion, would go to Ukraine. In addition, $14.1 billion is earmarked for Israel and another $9.1 billion for Taiwan, in the latter case for the provision of humanitarian aid.
The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, He thanked the senators for their position, saying that US aid helps “save lives” in the face of “Russian terror.” “It means that life goes on in our cities and war triumphs,” he stressed on his social network account, that North American aid “brings peace and restores global stability.”
The However, the political arithmetic of the United States makes it difficult to legally cover all proceedings in Congress. The President of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, made it clear on Monday that he rejects the text because it does not take into account measures to end the “catastrophe” at the North American borders.
Johnson criticized that this Senate foreign aid proposal “says nothing about the most pressing problem facing the country.” “The mission of the supplemental national security legislation was to secure America’s own border before sending additional foreign aid around the world. This is what the American people demand and deserve,” he said.
“Now that there has been no change in border policy from the Senate, the House must continue its own work on these important issues. The United States deserves better than the ‘status quo’ of the Senate,” he said in a statement shared on his social network profile X.