The US House has swiftly approved $150 billion in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and other American allies as Democrats and Republicans banded together after months of hard-right resistance over renewed American support for repelling Russia’s invasion.
“We did our work here, and I think history will judge it well,” said a weary Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., who risked his own job to marshal the package to passage. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson took a huge risk by pushing for the vote despite opposition from fellow Republicans.Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was grateful to both parties in the House and “personally Speaker Mike Johnson for the decision that keeps history on the right track,” he said on the social media platform X.
The GOP-controlled House struggled for months over what to do, first demanding that any assistance for Ukraine be tied to policy changes at the US-Mexico border, only to immediately reject a bipartisan Senate offer along those very lines. Opponents, particularly the hard-right Republicans from Johnson’s majority, argued that the US should focus on the home front, addressing domestic border security and the nation’s rising debt load, and they warned against spending more money, which largely flows to American defence manufacturers, to produce weaponry used overseas.
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