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In letter to Congress, White House urges lawmakers to support Ukraine |
White House Office of Management and Budget director Shalanda Young said the U.S. will run out of approved money for Ukraine at the end of the year. |
Young said it was urgent that Congress act on President Biden's $61 billion request to support Ukraine. "We are out of money to support Ukraine in this fight," Young wrote, warning a failure to pass aid soon would "kneecap" the embattled country on the battlefield. Congress has failed to pass a bill for Ukraine all year, largely because the GOP-controlled House has struggled to muster enough support for Kyiv. More conservative House Republicans have expressed skepticism about Ukraine, which is now approaching two years of its fight with Russia. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has expressed support for Ukraine but tied any legislation approving new aid with GOP border security efforts. Johnson on Monday accused the White House of failing to answer Republicans' concerns on Ukraine. "The Biden Administration has failed to substantively address any of my conference's legitimate concerns about the lack of a clear strategy in Ukraine, a path to resolving the conflict, or a plan for adequately ensuring accountability for aid provided by American taxpayers," he wrote on X. The Ukraine request is part of Biden's $106 billion ask to also support Israel, the border and the Indo-Pacific region. The president requested Congress act in October, shortly after the Israel-Hamas war broke out. Read the full report at TheHill.com. |
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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday said President Biden finds the use of rape as a weapon of war "reprehensible," when she was asked about Rep. Pramila Jayapal's (D-Wash.) recent comments on rapes being committed by Hamas fighters. CNN anchor Dana Bash on Sunday pressed Jayapal on the silence from some fellow progressive leaders on Hamas' use of rape as a weapon of war against Israeli women, but Jayapal pivoted her answer to focus on Israel ... |
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National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby defended the United States's diplomatic approach in the Israel-Hamas war and would not commit to imposing any hard red lines on support for Israel. "We believe that the approach that we’ve been taking, Margaret, has had an effect," Kirby told CBS's Margaret Brennan on "Face the Nation," adding that the United States has been very clear in calling for Israel to take precautions … |
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A former U.S. diplomat is accused of conducting a more than 40-year secretive campaign to spy on behalf of the Cuban government. The Department of Justice (DOJ) said Monday it was charging Victor Manuel Rocha, 73, of working as a covert agent with Cuba’s General Directorate of Intelligence since at least 1981 — the year he was hired to work in the State Department. Rocha, who served in multiple federal roles including … |
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The U.S. military said Monday it located five more bodies from last week’s fatal Osprey crash in southwestern Japan. Search teams, made up of ships and divers, located the five bodies along with the main fuselage of the CV-22 Osprey aircraft, which crashed near Yakushima, Japan, on Nov. 29. The discovery means six of the bodies of the Osprey crew have now been recovered from the aircraft, which took off with a team of … |
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Border-Ukraine pairing threatens to tear Democrats apart |
Immigration advocates are nearing their wits’ end as Senate negotiators barrel toward a deal that would permanently change immigration law in exchange for another round of Ukraine funding. The four Latino Democrats in the chamber — who are not part of the talks — have made clear that the fundamental … |
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