{"id":8591,"date":"2023-11-02T11:18:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T11:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/business\/kyivs-backers-in-us-congress-fight-to-secure-aid-for-war-effort\/"},"modified":"2023-11-02T11:18:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T11:18:16","slug":"kyivs-backers-in-us-congress-fight-to-secure-aid-for-war-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/?p=8591","title":{"rendered":"Kyiv\u2019s backers in US Congress fight to secure aid for war effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Stay informed with free updates<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description\"><span>Simply sign up to the <!-- -->US foreign policy<!-- --> myFT Digest &#8212; delivered directly to your inbox.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=8493ec94-b05d-4285-934c-26a4fe7ba587&amp;concept-id=ab55ad88-5ddf-463b-b757-f8fc08f681a4\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>The White House and congressional backers of Ukraine are fighting to save billions of dollars of funding for Kyiv in looming US budget negotiations, after House Republicans moved to only support Israel with extra aid. <\/p>\n<p>US president Joe Biden last month asked Congress to approve $106bn in new funds for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific region, as well as border security and humanitarian assistance \u2014 all in a large package designed to tackle America\u2019s top foreign policy priorities. <\/p>\n<p>That plan is supported by most Democrats and crucial Republican national security hawks, particularly in the Senate. But House Republicans, serving under the new Speaker Mike Johnson, have balked at Biden\u2019s plans, with rank-and-file lawmakers embracing former president Donald Trump\u2019s more isolationist views on foreign policy. <\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the House is planning to vote on much narrower legislation worth $14bn that would provide aid just to Israel, leaving Ukraine\u2019s allies in Washington increasingly worried.<\/p>\n<p>About $60bn of Biden\u2019s request to Congress was intended for Ukraine, and top US officials have warned that current American aid will only last a few more weeks before it lapses, with potentially harsh consequences for Kyiv\u2019s forces on the battlefield. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a Gallup poll published on Thursday suggests the US public is growing increasingly sceptical of Ukraine funding. According to the survey, 41 per cent of Americans believe the US is doing \u201ctoo much\u201d to support Ukraine, compared with 29 per cent who held that view in June. The share of Americans who think US backing for Kyiv is \u201cnot enough\u201d has edged down to 25 per cent from 28 per cent in June. <\/p>\n<p>The White House is sticking to its position that all the aid needs to be passed together, and threatened to oppose House efforts to split them. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Biden] wants to see this [budget package]\u2009approved in full because he believes that all of those priorities are significant, urgent, national security priorities,\u201d John Kirby, the White House National Security Council\u2019s spokesman, told reporters on Wednesday. \u201cAnd the keyword there is urgent.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate who has championed Ukraine aid in a split with Johnson, chimed in during a speech on the floor of the upper chamber. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica\u2019s adversaries don\u2019t ease up when we lose our resolve. In fact, they press their advantage,\u201d he said. \u201cOver and over again, history has taught us that the costs of disengaging from the world are far higher than the costs of engaging.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the week, top Biden cabinet members had pleaded directly for lawmakers to keep the funding package together, arguing that Ukraine and Israel are part of the same push to protect US allies around the world. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn both Israel and Ukraine, democracies are fighting ruthless foes bent on their annihilation,\u201d Lloyd Austin, the US defence secretary, said in congressional testimony. \u201cWe will not let Hamas or [Russian president Vladimir] Putin win. Today\u2019s battles against aggression and terrorism will define global security for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But many Republicans \u2014 including some senators \u2014 have been unconvinced by those arguments and remain sceptical of Ukraine aid. \u201cWe\u2019re stretched way too thin,\u201d JD Vance, the Ohio senator close to Trump, told CBS on Sunday. \u201cCongress needs a real debate and not to collapse these packages together and pretend we can do everything at once. We can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican House member from Georgia, has vowed on X, formerly Twitter, to oppose funding packages for both Ukraine and Israel, saying tackling the border crisis and curbing the national debt were more important. <\/p>\n<p>The White House and Congress are debating the budget request ahead of a November 17 deadline to keep funding regular government operations, or face a partial shutdown of its operations. The last time there was such a deadline \u2014 on September 30 \u2014 Congress narrowly avoided a shutdown, but the compromise legislation stripped out Ukraine aid and led to the ousting of then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy. <\/p>\n<p>One hope for supporters of Ukraine funding is that at some point in the coming weeks it could get added in or passed separately as part of compromise legislation. But the path to that remains very hazy. <\/p>\n<p>The funding plan for Israel only that has been proposed by House Republicans was even more unpalatable to Democrats and the White House because it was paired with cuts to the Internal Revenue Service, to stop the US tax collection agency from increasing enforcement of evasion among the wealthy and large companies. The extra funding for the IRS was championed by Biden and approved by Congress last year but has triggered conservative wrath. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter weeks of dysfunction and delay caused by the chaos of choosing a new Speaker, House Republicans only want to provide US aid to Israel by weakening the IRS\u2019s ability to crack down on wealthy tax cheats,\u201d Jack Reed, the Democratic chair of the Senate armed services, said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir proposal abandons Ukraine and also eliminates humanitarian assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Additional reporting by Felicia Schwartz<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/8493ec94-b05d-4285-934c-26a4fe7ba587\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US foreign policy myFT Digest &#8212; delivered directly to your inbox. 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