The US House of Representatives opposed aid to Israel without Ukraine

ТАСС:  The bill proposed by the Republicans, which would provide assistance to Israel without allocating funds to support Ukraine, did not receive the required number of votes in the US House of Representatives. The meeting will be broadcast on C-SPAN.

250 legislators voted in support of the initiative, while 180 members of the lower house of Congress voted against it. The votes of two-thirds of congressmen were needed to approve the bill.

On February 3, a group of Republican congressmen presented a document providing for the direction of $17.6 billion in aid to Israel without allocating additional funds to support Ukraine. The American administration strongly opposed the initiative; the White House said that US President Joe Biden would veto the bill if it was approved by Congress.

On February 4, the US Senate published package agreements on the allocation of additional funding in the 2024 fiscal year, which began in the United States on October 1 last year, combining funds for tightening border controls on the southern border, assistance to Ukraine and Israel. The first procedural vote on the bill will take place in the upper house of Congress on February 7. Even if the Senate supports the initiative, its fate in the House remains unclear. Speaker of the Lower House Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) called the bill "not passable." Republican Majority Leader in the House of Representatives Steve Scalise said that the document would not be put to a vote at all.