A last-minute budget deal reached over the weekend prevented a U.S. government shutdown but left pro-Ukrainian officials in Washington scrambling on Monday for the best path to getting approval for billions of dollars in additional aid in Kiev. Leaders of the Senate, which is controlled by Democrats – President Joe Biden’s party – with a slim majority, have vowed to introduce legislation in the coming weeks to ensure continued US security and economic support for Ukrainians. But in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said he needed more information from the Biden administration, while supporters accused him of having made a “secret deal” with Biden to allow voting on a bill. .
The United States has sent the Kiev government $113 billion in humanitarian, economic and security aid since Russia’s invasion in February 2022. In July, Biden asked Congress to approve an additional $24 billion in aid to Ukraine. A US official said that as of Monday the Defense Department had only $1.6 billion more in cash to replace weapons sent to Ukraine and $5.4 billion more from the Presidential Drawing Authority. Republican opponents of more aid to Ukraine, many of them allies of former President Donald Trump, who will seek election again next year, continued their campaign Monday against giving Kiev more money. Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz, who has said he will seek to remove McCarthy as speaker of the House this week, accused the supporter of seeking a secret deal with Biden, which McCarthy has denied.
Source: Terra

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