US President Joe Biden late Friday evening, December 22, signed a bill on annual defense spending.
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Congress passed this American defense policy bill last week. HR 2670, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2024, provides a record $886 billion for the Pentagon. This was reported by the White House press service and Reuters.
According to the American leader, this legislation provides critical authorities necessary to build the military needed “to deter future conflicts while supporting the service members, their spouses and families who carry out this mission every day.”
The White House statement did not indicate how much benefits were provided for Ukraine. However, Reuters writes that the bill continues one measure of assistance to Kyiv, the initiative to promote the security of Ukraine until the end of 2026, allowing for the allocation of $300 million. for the program in the fiscal year expiring September 30, 2024, and the following.
The law signed by Biden consists of almost 3 thousand 100 pages, provided for a 5.2% increase in military pay and increased the overall national security budget by about 3% to $886 billion.
Let us recall that on December 14, American congressmen agreed with the required number of votes on the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), for which $300 million is allocated. for the fiscal year This amount is significantly less than US President Joe Biden’s proposal to provide Ukraine with $61 billion. The initiative for this assistance was blocked by legislators.
Source: Reuters
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