Pelosi: House to vote on nearly $40B Ukraine aid package Tuesday night
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By Amy Wang 3:32 p.m.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky presents the Order of Princess Olga, a Ukrainian civil decoration, to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on April 30 during a U.S. congressional delegation visit to Kyiv.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky presents the Order of Princess Olga, a Ukrainian civil decoration, to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on April 30 during a U.S. congressional delegation visit to Kyiv. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office/Getty Images)

The House will vote Tuesday night on approving nearly $40 billion in emergency aid to Ukraine, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said.

“Time is of the essence — and we cannot afford to wait,” said Pelosi in a memo to House Democrats. “With this aid package, America sends a resounding message to the world of our unwavering determination to stand with the courageous people of Ukraine until victory is won.”

The package includes $33 billion in security, economic and humanitarian assistance to the Ukrainian government that President Biden requested last month. It also includes a supplemental bill, introduced by Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro (D-Conn.), to provide additional aid to address, among many issues, global food insecurity as a result of the war in Ukraine, bringing the total to nearly $40 billion.

“Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has cost thousands of innocent lives, devastated cities across the region, and fueled a humanitarian crisis, rising costs, and food insecurity around the world,” DeLauro, the chair of the House Appropriations Committee, said in a statement. “We have a moral responsibility to deliver this support to help end the grievous loss of life, hold Putin and his cronies accountable, and protect global democracy.”

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We need peace!

What an unwavering and overwhelming support from US under Biden, this is unprecedented

sosanova:
$40 billion
That's more than half of Russia's annual military budget

More than half of that amount wont even get to Ukraine military hands as usual. They will be destroyed before they get to learn how to use the weapons. The only thing US will be able to do is to create massive insurgent groups and rebels after the war due to unaccounted weapons in wrong hands like we are now seeing in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia.

Good

It's a done deal. Congress already approved it. The Senate voted 100 - 0 to ban Russian oil and also unanimously to condemn Putin as a war criminal.

The vote at the Senate on the war is going to be bipartisan as well.

sosanova:
$40 billion
That's more than half of Russia's annual military budget

Wow. That guy is a prophet

God1000:
What an unwavering and overwhelming support from US under Biden, this is unprecedented

Not just Biden. Putin did a good job uniting the American Liberals (Democrats) and conservatives (Republicans).

That's their problem

SUPERPACK:
More than half of that amount wont even get to Ukraine military hands as usual. They will be destroyed before they get to learn how to use the weapons. The only thing US will be able to do is to create massive insurgent groups and rebels after the war due to unaccounted weapons in wrong hands like we are now seeing in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia.

You know nothing about weapons being Sent to Ukraine. All the weapons Sent all tge time arrived and got to destination. Russia do not have the capacity to track them, talkless of destroying them on transits.