Presentation of the aid package to Ukraine and Israel in the US Congress

according to the report of the International Group Tasnim News After months of waiting, lawmakers in the US House of Representatives finally approved a $95 billion aid package after overcoming staunch Republican opposition. The US presented Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan in a massive bipartisan vote.

According to the report, yesterday’s vote, Friday, which took place with 316 votes to 94, was overwhelmingly supported by Democrats so that the plan’s supporters Overcome the opponents who had refused to approve the bill approved by the Senate for months, and a package similar to the bill approved by the US Senate to allocate foreign aid in February be proposed.

According to this report, in addition to allocating aid to friendly countries, this legal package includes a bill to transfer frozen assets of Russia to Ukraine, sanctions against Hamas and Iran. And obliging the owner of Tik Tok to sell this social network or be banned across the United States.

The aid package includes more than $95 billion in security assistance, including $1.9 billion in humanitarian aid that the Democrats requested. allocated.

If the package passes in Congress, as expected, the Senate will also move on to the Senate for final signature and becoming law. President Joe Biden’s desk will send.

Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told American senators to be ready to return this bill at the end of the week if needed.

While some conservative lawmakers are opposed to sending more aid to Ukraine, Republican front-runner Donald Trump for the 2024 election has so far had mixed opinions on the issue.

While last week Steve Scalise The leader of the majority of the US House of Representatives announced in a statement that after the retaliatory missile and drone attack of the Islamic Republic of Iran on Israel, the lawmakers of the Congress changed their meeting schedule, and the budget allocation bill Support for the Israeli regime and holding Iran accountable after this attack will be reviewed next week.

Last week it was not clear that Scalise refers to a separate aid bill for the Zionist regime, or he means the $95 billion supplemental bill in the US budget, which includes $14 billion in aid for this regime, plus $60 billion in aid for Ukraine, and the allocation of aid funds for Taiwan to counter China’s influence and the allocation of billions of dollars in humanitarian aid .

This supplementary bill in February this year with the support It passed 70 percent of the Senate but was blocked in Congress because lawmakers oppose more aid funding for Ukraine, and a group of left-leaning Democrats opposes more aid for Israel It massacres the innocent in Gaza, it has been faced.style=”background-color:white”>

Two days after announcing this news by Scalise, “Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives announced that the issue of providing additional aid to Ukraine will be considered in the US Congress in the form of a separate package.

Johnson on his page on the X social network ( (former Twitter) wrote: “This week we will consider separate bills with a proper structural reform process. These packages include allocating funds to provide aid to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan, this time each of them will be considered separately. They will get.”

Punchball Magazine (Punchbowl) In this regard, it has been mentioned that the need for this method to provide the funds needed by Israel is due to the recent attack by Iran, and Tel Aviv authorities need more funds to defend themselves, and for this reason, the US House of Representatives approved the aid package. It does not approve that it also mentions Ukraine, which is not of much interest in the current situation.

Before that, Mike Johnson promised that The Ukraine aid bill could be considered in the House next week, but emerging divisions over the bipartisan bill could prevent that..

Johnson tried twice before to pass the aid bill To Israel without allocating any aid to Ukraine, it remains fruitless.

In mid-March, the White House proposed budget released for fiscal year 2025. Joe Biden’s administration asked Congress to approve $61.4 billion in U.S. defense spending in 2025, which is $34 billion more than the budget for the year. 2024 is this country.

According to Tasnim, this operation was in response to the attack of the Zionist regime on April 13 The Iranian consulate in Damascus and the testimony of senior Iranian advisers in this country.

At the same time the US House of Representatives passed a series of bills With the aim of putting financial pressure on Iran after Tehran’s retaliatory missile and drone attack against the Zionist regime, it approved.

According to these bills, financial penalties are widely imposed on Iran, and those who support it and its network of proxies. The bills include a bill to end the tax-exempt status of nonprofits they say support terrorist groups, a bill aimed at disrupting the purchase of oil and petrochemicals. by China from Iran and trying to cut off the Iranian government’s access to the American financial system.

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