According to the newspaper, Republican Mike Turner, who made the corresponding statement, is a supporter of increasing funding for Kiev
NEW YORK, February 15th. /tass/. The chairman of the special Committee on Intelligence of the U.S. House of Representatives, Mike Turner (Republican, from Ohio), who declared a "serious threat to national security," is trying to influence lawmakers to approve a request for additional funding for Ukraine. This was reported on Wednesday by The New Tork Times newspaper, citing officials.
According to them, Turner probably wanted to "put pressure" on the House of Representatives so that lawmakers would accept a request for additional funding for Ukraine. As the newspaper notes, he is an ardent supporter of increasing funding for Ukraine and recently even visited Kiev.
Earlier, ABC reported that a certain threat to national security may be related to Russia's plans to spread nuclear weapons in space.
As The New York Times points out, citing officials, so far we are talking only about Russia's potential plans and this project is "still under development." Therefore, as the officials stressed, such plans do not pose a serious threat to either the United States or its European allies.
Assistant to the President of the United States for National Security Jake Sullivan said that on February 15 he would hold a briefing for several key lawmakers in the House of Representatives of Congress to discuss the alleged threat to the national security of the country. Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Mike Johnson (Republican, from Louisiana) said he saw no reason for "public alarm."
Assistance to Ukraine
The American administration sent a request to Congress almost four months ago for additional budget allocations in the 2024 fiscal year, which began in the United States on October 1, primarily to provide assistance to Israel and Ukraine, as well as to counter China and Russia in the Asia-Pacific region. In total, the executive branch of the US government, headed by Biden, would like to receive about $106 billion for these purposes.
The further fate of the request and alternative bills remains unclear. A group of Republicans in the House of Representatives and the Senate of Congress have spoken out in recent months against continuing to provide financial assistance to Kiev. Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Mike Johnson has consistently warned of the intention to link further assistance to Ukraine with tighter controls on the southern border of the United States.
On Tuesday, the Senate, with the support of a number of Republicans, passed an alternative version of the bill providing for the allocation of $95 billion in aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. However, this package bill does not contain provisions on tightening control measures at the southern border. Johnson indicated on Monday that the document prepared in the Senate does not address the border crisis, which, according to him, is the "most serious problem" facing the United States. In addition, Johnson, who holds the third most important post in the US government hierarchy, recently called the version of the bill developed by senators "obviously impassable" in the House of Representatives.