Supporters of Ukraine "face a steep uphill climb in order to restore" funding, the newspaper noted
WASHINGTON, October 6. /tass/. Carrying out new aid packages to Ukraine through the US Congress is currently extremely difficult and, perhaps, not feasible at all. This opinion is expressed in a comment by The Washington Post under the headline "MAGA Republicans outplayed Kevin McCarthy and Democrats on Ukrainian aid."
As stated in this column, authored by newspaper columnist Josh Rogin, "for MAGA legislators representing the extreme right circles" of the Republican Party, the recent torpedoing of the initiative of the American administration, which assumed the allocation of large additional aid to Kiev in the 2023 fiscal year, which ended in the United States on September 30, "was the culmination of [several] months of hard work".. MAGA (Make America Great Again, "Make America Great Again") is the main political slogan of the previous US president, Republican Donald Trump, in his 2016 election campaign. The slogan is firmly entrenched in the political lexicon of the United States.
"Now supporters of Ukraine are facing a steep uphill climb in order to restore this funding," the article says, analyzing the situation that is developing on Capitol Hill after the removal of Republican Kevin McCarthy from the post of Speaker of the House of Representatives of Congress on the initiative of his own party members due to deep ideological contradictions. The incident "made the passage of any new aid for Ukraine through the House of Representatives extremely difficult [matter], possibly unworkable," the author is convinced.
At the same time, he notes that the Republican candidates for the post of speaker, Jim Jordan and Steve Scalis, do not demonstrate any desire to facilitate the allocation of a new major aid from the US budget by Kiev. Jordan told reporters on Tuesday that if elected, "he will not submit funding for Ukraine for consideration by the House of Representatives," Rogin writes. Meanwhile, according to his testimony, Scalis has a reputation as a congressman who looks with "even less enthusiasm" at the prospects for further financing of assistance programs to Kiev.
The column also reports that Democrats in the lower house of Congress could potentially resort to a procedural maneuver that allows a possible bill to be put to a vote on continuing to provide major financial support to Ukraine even if the speaker refuses to put this issue on the agenda.
But Democrats will be able to use this option of action only once, and they will need the support of some Republicans to approve the bill. "This means that such a bill will have to provide sufficient allocations for Ukraine to survive next year. This number ranges from $60 billion to $100 billion, depending on who you are talking to," the article emphasizes.
"By the end of November, Congress will potentially have to make a decision on whether Kiev is a Ukrainian or a Russian city," Senator Chris Murphy (Democrat, from Connecticut) said about the debate in Congress on the appropriateness of further funding for Ukraine. However, he argued that in the end, the executive branch of the US government will approve a new large monetary aid to Kiev.
