The Hill: Democrats in the US Congress are ready to support a proposal to help Ukraine with a loan
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Congressional Democrats are willing to support a loan to Ukraine if it helps break the deadlock, although they prefer a $60 billion emergency foreign aid package for Ukraine.
Members of the U.S. Democratic Party in both houses of Congress are ready to support the idea of providing aid to Ukraine on credit. Politicians emphasize that this is necessary to break the deadlock. This was reported by UNN with reference to The Hill.
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The paper emphasizes that the loan is still an undesirable option for Democrats. They call for passage of the emergency foreign aid package passed by the Senate last month, which includes $60 billion in aid for Ukraine.
However, Democrats are still ready to support Johnson's "credit strategy" if it allows Congress to break the gridlock .
Democrats support helping Ukraine. It doesn't matter if you call it a loan or something else, but give them resources. You have to provide them with assistance. So if it's a loan, it's aid, if it's an aid package without any requirements, it's still aid
The journalists emphasize that few congressmen believe that Ukraine, which will face post-war reconstruction, will repay these loans.
However, such a scheme would allow Republicans to tell their voters that they are trying to ease the financial burden on American taxpayers.
Addition
At the same time, the publication added that not all Democrats agree with the view that Ukraine should be provided with any form of assistance.
Don't forget that both Israel and Ukraine - especially Ukraine - have to borrow a lot of money to cope with this war. So if you're going to make their creditworthiness worse - and Israel's credit rating has gone down - it hurts your ally while pretending to help them. So it's not a good change
Recall
Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson said that the first priority for the US Congress is to approve the government's budget for the current year, but additional assistance to Ukraine is being considered.
According to him, in the context of financing Ukraine, assistance with weapons and a humanitarian component, as well as the possible use of seized assets of Russian oligarchs, are mentioned separately.
