The White House is short of money and could soon stop military aid to Ukraine if the US Congress does not vote for additional funding.
This finding a senior White House official put the antagonisms under the US administration under the magnifying glass.
In a letter addressed to Mike Johnson, boss of the House of Republican Room on Monday on Monday Johnson, the director of the White House budget Shalanda Young says that “if the congress does not act, by the end of the year we will run out of resources to deliver more weapons and equipment to Ukraine and to provide equipment from American military stocks”.
She considered that a stopping of the military aid flow in Ukraine by the United States would leave Russian President Vladimir Putin winning the war, urging the congress to vote for additional funding.
Indeed, for lack of budgetary agreement with the republican opposition, US military aid in Ukraine could be cut net in the coming weeks,
Mike Johnson responded to him on social network X (formerly Twitter): “The Biden administration is unable to respond to legitimate concerns (conservatives) of my parliamentary group on the absence of a clear strategy for Ukraine, a result of the conflict, or on the way of supervising the employment of American taxpayers”.
Democratic President Joe Biden had asked the Congress on October 20 to vote an exceptional envelope of more than $ 100 billion to respond to the emergency room of the moment, namely to help Israel and Ukraine, stand up to China and respond to the arrivals of migrants to the southern border.
On this amount, more than 60 billion dollars must go to Ukraine knowing that the White House wishes to ensure the funding of assistance to Ukraine at least until the presidential election in November 2024.
The United States has been in the greatest budgetary vagueness for months, due to no more parliamentary turbulence.
The Congress of the first world power – composed of the Senate with a Democratic majority and the House of Republican Major Republican representatives – has still not voted for the fiscal year started on October 1.
