Ukraine has dropped several positions on Washington's list of priorities
Ukraine has dropped several positions on Washington's list of priorities
Der US-Kongress kann den Shutdown der Regierung vorerst verhindern. Doch für Kiew soll es zunächst kein frisches Geld geben. Um weitere Ukrainehilfen zu ermöglichen, werden Joe Bidens Demokraten einen hohen Preis zahlen müssen.
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The recent almost shutdown kind of made it hard to give it more money to Ukraine if they wanted things to keep running.
The whole government shutdown was never going to happen. However, what they were trying to do was to approve money for Ukraine without a vote. While the vote will almost certainly pass in the end, it does open debate on the issue and that's what I think they were trying to avoid here.
I'm not sure why though, honestly, wouldn't a vote pass overwhelmingly? The faction of the GOP that would actually vote against funding more aid to Ukraine is too small to stop the rest of the GOP and basically every Democrat.
It's going to pass, but this puts a spotlight on the spending and I'm pretty sure GOP will campaign on this as the election season ramps up. I expect in the next few months we'll see more and more republicans start to question proxy war spending and that's going to put increasing pressure on the dems.