The US House of Representatives supported assistance to Ukraine: what will happen next

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The House of Representatives on the evening of April 20 finally supported the decision to transfer more than $60 billion in aid to Ukraine. At the same time, bureaucratic procedures do not end there.

All four bills in the package received the necessary votes in the House of Representatives. Now they will unite and send it to the Senate. It is expected that there will be no problems with voting there and the bill will be sent to Biden for signature.

What will happen next with the package

The US House of Representatives supported the relief bill for Ukraine by 311 votes. In particular, 210 Democrats and 101 Republicans voted in favor. However, this is not the final vote before aid begins to flow to our state.

As people's deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak explained, then all 4 bills are combined and amended into the Senate version. After that, it is sent directly to the Senate.

Next, the Senate should take it to work today and hold the first vote (60+). And when the second vote comes (it could be in a couple of days), then that’s it,” he explained.

At the end, the law must be signed by US President Joe Biden.

What the House approved

During the same session the House of Representatives approved a bill on the use of Russian assets for the needs of Ukraine. In addition, congressmen supported the allocation of 8.1 billion dollars in aid to Taiwan, as well as 26.4 billion to Israel.

In addition, during the meeting, amendments to the bill on assistance to Ukraine. They were all rejected. It is worth noting that they were negative for our state. For example, Victoria Spartz proposed excluding from the bill four provisions related to the PDA program, which allows the White House to allocate weapons to Ukraine directly from the warehouses of the American army. And Marjorie Taylor Greene generally suggested that “every dollar amount in this law should be reduced to zero.”