Senate presents $111 billion funding package to help Ukraine

The U.S. Senate introduced a bill on national security bill worth about 111 billion dollars, which includes assistance to Ukraine and Israel, as well as measures aimed at protecting the southern border of with Mexico. This was reported by The Hill with reference to the document, UNN reports.

Details

The document has 167 pages. It provides for support for Ukraine for more than $15 billion, in particular in the following areas "military training, intelligence sharing, and increased presence in the area of European Command's area of responsibility."

The bill also includes $10.6 billion in aid to Israel, which, according to the Israel, which, as stated, includes $4 billion for missile defense, as well as $1.2 billion to accelerate the development of the Iron Ray.

It also includes $43.6 billion for measures aimed at increasing the country's production capacity in the field of arms and ammunition, investments in the US submarine industrial base and to increase their stockpile.

In a statement accompanying the release of the bill, Republican Patty Murray called it extremely important to continue our support for Ukraine at this crucial moment and to send a message to Putin and other dictators that they cannot can simply wait it out while the United States waits it out.

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She added that the package also spurs a whole-of-government effort to stem the flow of government's efforts to stem the flow of fentanyl and fight transnational criminal organizations involved in its trafficking. trafficking.

Appendix

This decision comes as border negotiations between senators from both border talks between senators from both sides have broken down in recent days, with Republicans are demanding that any agreement to provide aid to Ukraine and Israel also include changes aimed at strengthening border security.

Among the provisions is the allocation of approximately $1.4 billion for hiring "teams of immigration judges, including paralegals attorneys, law clerks, paralegals, court administrators, interpreters and other support staff.

The bill also provides hundreds of millions of dollars for efforts to address the shortage of DNA samples collected from migrants apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol, as well as to strengthen laboratory analysis by the Drug Enforcement Administration of samples of illicit fentanyl samples to track illegal fentanyl shipments back to manufacturers.

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Democrats say bill would also provide more than $5 billion in emergency funding for U.S. Customs and Border Protection and about $2.3 billion in emergency funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs and Customs Enforcement.

The bill is expected to come up for a first procedural vote on Wednesday, as Democrats warn that Ukraine lacks resources amid the ongoing war with Russia.

However, the path to passing the bill is not easy. path to passage, however, as Republicans insist on more aggressive border border.

To recap

The Ukrainian delegation consisting of the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, the head of the Presidential Administration Andriy Yermak and the Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States during their visit to America meet with Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Mike Johnson. 

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At the same time, Ukraine's Ambassador to the US Oksana Markarova reportedthat the US Senate may not pass a bill on additional aid to Ukraine on Wednesday, December 6, due to technical problems.