The White House continues to disagree with the Republicans over providing aid to Israel and Ukraine

According to the international group Tasnim News Agency, following the presentation of a bill by congressional Republicans for financial aid 17 6 billion dollars to the Zionist regime without considering a budget for Ukraine, the White House called this bill a pessimistic political maneuver.

Mike Johnson, Speaker of the US House of Representatives announced A group of Republican congressional lawmakers presented a bill that provides $17.6 billion in financial aid to Israel without any additional aid to Ukraine, and Congress plans to vote on this bill next week.

The Congressional Appropriations Committee announced that this financial aid for Israel includes funding to help resupply Israel’s missile defense systems, purchase more advanced weapons systems, and produce artillery ammunition and Other ammunition is needed to continue fighting with Hamas in the Middle East.

In this document, there is no budget for aid to Ukraine, while the US Senate He is working on a bipartisan bill on border security and an aid package.

Following the presentation of this bill, the White House criticized the congressional Republicans for presenting such a bill, calling it a cynical political maneuver.

White House spokeswoman Karin Jean-Pierre said in a statement that the administration has been negotiating with a bipartisan committee of senators for months on a national security deal that would simultaneously secure the border. and more aid for Israel and Ukraine is also being discussed and consulted. Just as an agreed-upon legal text is being prepared, congressional Republicans have offered their latest cynical political maneuver. Israel’s security must be ensured, but this is not a political game.

Johnson wrote in a letter to his Republican colleagues in Congress: “Next week, we will have a clean supplement package and We will review and approve independently to support Israel.

The White House once again asked the Republicans of the Congress to cooperate with the government and the Senate in this regard and to pass a bill for national security, which includes aid to Ukraine, which is President Biden’s priority.

Jean-Pierre pointed out that we strongly, with this measure, for security We oppose the fact that nothing is being done about the borders and helping the people of Ukraine defend themselves against Russian aggression, and that humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians, most of whom are women and children, is being ignored. Republicans in Congress should work on a bipartisan solution on national security issues like the one the administration and Senate are working on.

Meanwhile, the future of this bill is still in an aura of uncertainty. contract. A number of Republicans in Congress and the Senate have stood up against the request for more aid to Ukraine. Johnson has repeatedly emphasized that any further aid to Ukraine would be tied to greater control of the US’s southern border with Mexico to prevent illegal immigration. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell made the same statement.

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