The allocation of additional aid to Ukraine is supported by the majority of the US Congress in both chambers, both Republicans and Democrats.
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This is stated by US legislators in conversations with the Voice of America. The publication is confident that the main debate now lies in the format of putting this bill to a vote.
Democrats are demanding a vote for the entire package: funding for aid to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, along with strengthening security of the US border with Mexico.
At the same time, Republicans call for each bill to be considered separately, and assistance to Ukraine to be combined with issues of the US border and strengthening of immigration legislation.
A Voice of America correspondent asked American legislators to explain how assistance to Ukraine in the war with the Russian Federation is related to the Mexican-American border and why some legislators are demanding that these two issues be considered in tandem.
Most lawmakers from both parties say it’s a way to pressure the Biden administration to pay more attention to the migrant crisis.
Despite the fact that it was Republicans in the House of Representatives who initially demanded strengthening US border security and unifying this issue with the help of Ukraine, voices in support of this initiative are increasingly being heard both from Senate legislators and from Democrats in general. Representatives of both parties with whom Voice of America journalists spoke note that illegal crossing of the US border with Mexico has become a real crisis and requires an urgent solution.
But there are also caveats. Thus, according to Chris Murphy, a Democratic senator from Connecticut, linking Ukraine to the migration crisis in the United States is akin to “holding Ukrainian aid hostage” to a complex internal American issue. The lawmaker notes that Washington has failed to pass bipartisan immigration reform in the last 40 years.
Republicans insist they must first address the issue of migration before allocating money to Ukraine.
I think it is very unfortunate that Ukraine and its sovereignty have been held hostage by a major US domestic political problem. A problem that can be solved, but it will be difficult to do over the next two weeks, Murphy insists in comments to the Voice of America.
Earlier, at the initiative of US House Speaker Mike Johnson, Republicans, who currently hold a majority in the House of Representatives, divided President Joe Biden’s proposed aid package for Israel and Ukraine into separate aid packages for each country, tying both to agreeing on the party’s additional policy priorities.
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