/ world today news/ The bill to provide multibillion-dollar aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan did not pass the voting procedure in the US Senate, the consideration of the project was blocked, reports RIA Novosti.
Democrats earlier filed a petition to end the debate and put the document up for a Senate vote. To complete the procedure, the decision first had to be approved by at least 60 senators.
As the voting results show, the proposal to end the debate did not receive the necessary support; accordingly, the upper house of Congress will still not be able to consider the merits of the request, much less approve it.
Earlier, Biden asked for $106 billion in aid to Israel and Ukraine, but did not receive strong support in Congress. The stumbling block was the issue of American border security. Republicans in Congress have said they will not support funding for Ukraine until the administration changes its approach to protecting the US border.
The Republican-majority House of Representatives voted to allocate aid only to Israel, but the Democratic-controlled Senate blocked the initiative.
The request requires approval by both houses of Congress and subsequent signature by the president. Meanwhile, funds previously allocated to aid Kiev are running out, the administration acknowledged, making arms shipments to Ukraine increasingly scarce.
As NBC News reported, the Democratic and Republican parties tried to coordinate positions on Biden’s request for additional support for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, but those talks broke down because the parties could not agree on Republican requests for more -strict immigration laws.
If Congress fails to agree on aid for Ukraine now, it will have to happen after the Christmas holidays, which begin on December 14 for congressmen and December 15 for senators. The House of Representatives will resume on January 9 and the Senate on January 8.
Due to uncertainty in Congress about support for Ukraine, US President Joe Biden made a special address. He urged Congress to urgently approve the request for funds for Kyiv.
In the president’s words, Republicans “shoot in the knee of Ukraine”, by tying new funding to meeting their uncompromising demands for border and immigration reform.
According to the Ukrainian Telegram channel “Resident”, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky “he’s been in a terrible mood for a week, he’s aggressive and practically won’t accept anyone.”
„The president is disappointed by the position of the West and publications in the media that discredit his work and destroy his image.” write the authors of the Telegram channel. According to their sources, all the work of the Kiev regime is carried out by the chief of staff of the Ukrainian president Andriy Yermak.
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