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Senate advances $95 billion Ukraine, Israel funding bill, faces uphill battle as budget talks loom
The Senate originally proposed a $118 funding bill that included aid for Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan and the U.S. border, which did not pass Wednesday.
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i'd like our leaders to either show some resolve and hand over blank checks to the Ukranians, Israelis and Taiwanese, or to retreat from those areas on the globe (and accept refugees in a structured manner of course).
The Senate originally proposed a $118 funding bill that included aid for Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan and the U.S. border, which did not pass Wednesday.
Remote : Thu, 08 Feb 2024 1840 GMT
Local : 2024-02-08(Thursday) 19 : 19 : 40
Found via World Headlines on nicer.app
EU pledges more than a million military shells to Ukraine
All the latest developments from the war in Ukraine.
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All the latest developments from the war in Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met on Wednesday with the European Union's top diplomat Josep Borrell in Kyiv.
The Presidential Office reported in a statement that the two discussed, among other things, Ukraine's most recent draft law which aims to increase mobilisation.
They also discussed military aid and financial support for Ukraine.
Borell pledged the EU will provide Ukraine with over a million artillery shells by the end of the year. Financial and military aid are vital to Kyiv, whose armed forced are said to be running out of ammunition.
US to draft fresh bill focusing on foreign aid
Concerns of faltering support are focused on the US.
Republican senators, due to pressure from Donald Trump, have blocked sweeping legislation that would bring in tougher border restrictions and grant new aid to Ukraine and Israel.
The bill included €55.6 billion in wartime aid to Ukraine and €12.9 billion for Israel and was backed by President Joe Biden. GOP lawmakers had insisted that the money for conflicts abroad be paired with help for the US border.
Senators are now trying to fashion a new version of a bill that will pass, which has stripped out all the border security measures, leaving the foreign aid parts.
i'd like our leaders to either show some resolve and hand over blank checks to the Ukranians, Israelis and Taiwanese, or to retreat from those areas on the globe (and accept refugees in a structured manner of course).