House of Representatives voted to allocate aid to Ukraine
The US House of Representatives passed a bill to provide more than $60 billion in aid to Ukraine. Even before the voting was over, the bill had received the required number of votes.
This is known from the broadcast on the Congress website.
The bill was voted in favor by 310 congressmen, while 112 were against. Now the document still needs to be approved by the Senate and the President.
During the voting, the audience could be heard chanting “Ukraine” and holding yellow and blue flags.
During the consideration of the bill, all amendments were rejected, including those from Congresswoman Victoria Spartz and Marjorie Taylor Green, the latter of whom opposed any aid to Ukraine.
Another amendment, from Congresswoman Kat Cammack, to remove all non-military aid to Ukraine from the bill was also rejected. She insisted that only military aid remain. The amendment was rejected with 275 votes against (150 votes in favor).
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the adoption of the bill a decision “that keeps history on the right track”. He thanked both parties of the House of Representatives and its Speaker Mike Johnson.
“Democracy and freedom will always have global significance and will never fail as long as America helps to protect it. The vital U.S. aid bill passed today by the House will keep the war from expanding, save thousands and thousands of lives, and help both of our nations to become stronger,” the President wrote.
What is known about the bill?
On April 17, the U.S. House of Representatives, the lower house of Congress, published the text of a new bill to help Ukraine, according to which Ukraine could receive about $61 billion and ATACMS ballistic missiles.
The upper house of Congress, the Senate, has approved a comprehensive bill since last year that provides $60 billion in aid to Ukraine and spending to help other countries. This document remained blocked for months in the Republican-majority House of Representatives.
Amid the blockage, Republicans submitted their own alternative initiatives, which failed in the vote.
In the end, House Speaker Mike Johnson presented four separate bills in a closed session that were broken out of the larger bill blocked by Republicans. The separate documents deal with American aid to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and national security priorities.
The White House “at first glance” assessed that the new bill meets the White House's requests. And U.S. President Joe Biden promised to sign the document immediately after it is approved by Congress.
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