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US Senate passes $95 billion aid bill for Ukraine, Israel

Tuesday, 13 February 2024 4:45 PM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 13 February 2024 4:45 PM ]

The US Congress. (File photo)

The United States Senate has passed a $95 billion bill for more aid to Ukraine, Chinese Taipei and Israel.

The bill, which has been delayed for months by far-right Republicans, was approved by the upper house of Congress early on Tuesday.

“It’s certainly been years, perhaps decades since the Senate has passed a bill that so greatly impacts not just our national security, not just the security of our allies, but the security of Western democracy,” claimed Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.

The bill will now head to the House of Representatives for their approval before it can be signed into law by US President Joe Biden.

However, analysts say the bill will likely be rejected by the Republican-controlled House and the House Speaker, Mike Johnson, has made it clear that it could take quite a long time before the bill reaches Biden's desk.

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The lion's share of the $95 billion bill has been allocated to Ukraine with $61bn for Kiev to fight the US-led West's proxy war against Russia.

At $14 billion, the Israeli regime’s share of the US aid ranks second, while $4.83 billion has been allocated to support the anti-China axis in the Indo-Pacific region, particularly Chinese Taipei.

The legislation includes $9.15 billion in aid for the Ukrainian refugees as well as the Palestinians trapped by Zionist forces in the besieged Gaza Strip and the Israeli-occupied West Bank, as well as aid to others displaced in US-created conflict zones in countries across the world.

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Critics of the bill, led by Donald Trump, have questioned the need for spending US taxpayers’ money on Ukraine, saying tending to America's domestic issues was more important.

The delay in Congress' approval of the bill shows how Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination in this year’s presidential election, has tightened his grip on the GOP.

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