Approval of Ukraine aid package unlikely before year-end
House Intelligence Committee of the US Congress chairman Mike Turner (R-Ohio) considers approval of an aid package to Ukraine unlikely before the end 2023.
"I think it would be very difficult to get it done by the end of the year and the impediment, currently, is the White House policy on the southern border <…>. Congress is going to require that there’ll be laws [changing] to make certain that the border returns to its prior state <…> that would secure the southern border," the Republican leader said in an interview with NBC News TV channel.
Bloomberg said earlier citing lawmakers that Ukraine might not receive new US aid until the middle of December and maybe longer. With the battlefield settling into a stalemate support for Ukraine is showing cracks, the agency said.
The White House had proposed last month a roughly $106 billion national security supplemental funding request that included money for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan as well as humanitarian aid and border security measures.
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