A supplemental Ukraine funding request from the White House, expected on Thursday, threatens to further gum up a busy end of the fiscal year for Congress.
Fox News' Greg Palkot reports on the deadly missile strikes targeting Pokrovsk and the ongoing analysis of Russian rocketry wreckage by military researchers in Kyiv.
Last month, 70 House Republicans voted for an amendment in the annual defense bill that would cut off all funding to Ukraine, which has been defending itself against aThe senior aide said they expect the supplemental request to be tied to a request for U.S. disaster relief funding, which could draw out some hesitant GOP votes. They also anticipated the likely funding for Ukraine to be between $13 billion and $18 billion, a smaller sum compared to the roughly $43 billion given by the U.S. so far.
President Biden meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office on Dec. 21, 2022. The House returns from its six-week August recess on Sept. 12, at which point McCarthy will have less than a month to pass the remaining 11 of his 12 promised spending bills before Sept. 30. If Congress fails to act on spending before the fiscal year ends, the government could risk a partial shutdown.
A continuing resolution would simply extend the current spending priorities for a certain amount of time. Republicans across the spectrum have opposed that option, calling it an extension of the Democrat policies of the last Congress."I think people were mad enough at him about the deal that he cut with the White House on the spending," the senior GOP aide said of McCarthy.
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