US President Biden has called on Congress to 'immediately' pass a nearly $40 billion Ukrainian aid bill, warning for the first time that existing aid will run out in 'approximately ten days'
President Joe Biden called on Congress to"immediately" pass a nearly $40 billion Ukrainian aid bill, warning for the first time that existing aid will run out in"approximately ten days."
"Get it to my desk in the next few days," Biden said in a statement.Biden had urged Congress to pass $10 billion in additional pandemic relief funding and the massive new assistance to Ukraine in the same bill. But he said on Monday that congressional leaders told him to decouple the effort in order to quicken the aid to Ukraine. Biden initially requested $33 billion to help Ukraine as it fights Russia, but Congress has proposed billions more for food aid and military equipment.
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