The US Congress will not vote on aid to Ukraine until 2024
US Senate leaders determined on Tuesday that the United States would not accept the $61 billion in aid to Ukraine by the end of 2023 requested by Kiev and the White House.
“Negotiators are still working on a number of issues and we hope their efforts will allow the Senate to act quickly [cette rallonge]Early next year,” Democrat Chuck Schumer and Republican Mitch McConnell said in a joint statement.
However, Congress's failure to vote for this envelope does not mean the end of US support for Kiev. American lawmakers return to school on January 8, and Senate Republican and Democratic leaders have simply stated their intention to validate this framework, which includes a military, humanitarian and macroeconomic component.
Things get complicated in the House of Representatives, which also has to approve these funds. Your new president, Republican Mike Johnson, is not fundamentally against expanding American aid, but claims that it is not sufficiently regulated.
“What the Biden administration seems to want is billions of additional dollars without proper oversight, without a real winning strategy,” he said after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in mid-December. The conservative speaker also has to deal with the hard right of his party, with parliamentarians who don't want to send a single cent more to Ukraine. These elected officials, who are close to former President Donald Trump, fired the last speaker just a few months ago, accusing him, among other things, of making a “secret deal” with Democrats on Ukraine.