Window of opportunity for Ukraine will open in early April: MP Honcharenko on the US aid package
Oleksiy Goncharenko, MP, noted that the delay in voting on the US aid package for Ukraine is influenced by the re-election of US congressmen and a third of senators
This was reported by espreso.tv
On February 14, Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson said that Republicans have no plans to vote for the bill on aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, as the United States must take care of its own problems before solving them around the world.
On February 16, the US House of Representatives went on recess until the end of February without voting on the bill passed by the Senate with the aid package for Ukraine.
On February 19, US President Joe Biden said he was ready to meet with Mike Johnson to discuss the bill to help Ukraine. The meeting took place on February 27.
February 28, speakers of 23 parliaments called on the US House of Representatives to consider aid to Ukraine.
February 29, Johnson, answering a question about approving aid to Ukraine, said he would move on it as soon as funding for government spending was approved.
March 1, after a vote in Congress, Biden signed a law that would temporarily extend funding for federal agencies to prevent a government shutdown in the country.
On March 12, the White House announces $300 million in military aid to Ukraine, the first arms package from the United States in 2024.
On March 13, during a visit to the United States, Justice Minister Denys Maliuska said that Ukraine could receive $8.5 billion from the blocked aid package in the form of a loan
On March 14, House Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said that the lower house of the US Congress should pass a bill on financial aid for Ukraine by March 22.
On the same day, Mike Johnson told Republican senators that the lower house of the US Congress would prepare its own bill to help Ukraine, which would include support in the form of a land loan or a loan.
The White House, on the other hand, called the best way to support Ukraine the adoption of a bipartisan bill for more than $60 billion and urged Speaker Johnson to bring the document to the floor.
On March 15, the US Department of Defense criticized Johnson's initiative to support Ukraine in the form of a loan instead of passing a bipartisan bill with more than $60 billion in aid.
On March 19, during a press conference following the Ramstein meeting, Pentagon Chief Lloyd Austin assured that he would continue to work with his colleagues to make US assistance to Ukraine possible.
