The president of the United States, Joe Biden, ratified this Wednesday the bill that contemplates a multimillion-dollar military aid package valued at $96 billion that will largely go to Ukraine, but also to Israel and Taiwan, thus ending months of negotiations in Congress.
“This is a good day for the United States, this is a good day for world peace,” proclaimed the head of the White House after signing his signature on a project with which Ukraine will receive some 57,000 million euros to meet its constant demands for weapons.
“If our allies become safer and stronger, we will be stronger,” reasoned Biden, who assured that this package will also strengthen the US economy, since the demands will go to its military and weapons industry.
The package also contemplates an injection of 26 billion dollars to Israel at a time when the international community is demanding a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and given the possibility of a large-scale operation on the city of Rafah, in the south of a Palestinian enclave already devastated by bombings.
Gratitude
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz thanked the US president for signing the military aid bill.
“Our alliance is ironclad. Thank you, President Biden,” Katz expressed in a brief message on his X profile. The project was approved last night in the Senate by a large majority, despite internal disputes in Republican ranks, after the approval of the House of Representatives. last weekend.
Another $8 billion will go to Taiwan, embroiled in a historic territorial dispute with China, as well as a bill that allows the ban of TikTok in the United States if its Chinese parent ByteDance does not dissociate itself from it and another that enables the Government to seize Russian assets frozen in the country worth about 6.5 billion euros.
Biden signed the project approved in the Senate with 79 votes in favor (48 Democrats and 31 Republicans) and 18 against (15 Republicans and three Democrats).
The Senate’s decision put an end to months of tense negotiations in the Republican ranks, to the point that the leadership position of the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, is still at stake, in favor of continuing to finance Ukraine unlike the hardline. of the party, which believes that the war with Russia is lost.
military aid
Military aid The Pentagon reported this Wednesday the sending of a new round of military aid to the Armed Forces of Ukraine valued at one billion dollars – about 935 million euros – just a few minutes after President Joe Biden finally approved the billionaire aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, blocked by Congress for months.
“Following approval of the national security supplement that the president has just signed into law, the Department of Defense announced significant new security assistance to urgently meet Ukraine’s critical security and defense needs,” says a statement released by the Pentagon.
As detailed by the US Administration, this new package includes air defense missiles, artillery projectiles, armored vehicles and anti-tank weapons, as well as ammunition and lighter weapons so that Ukraine can reinforce its defensive lines, protect its cities and confront Russian attacks. .
“With bipartisan support from Congress, Ukraine can count on strong and determined U.S. leadership to provide ongoing security support – along with some 50 allies and partners – to ensure its brave defenders receive the critical capabilities needed to fight against Russian aggression,” the State Department concluded.
