{"id":1362153,"date":"2022-03-07T10:16:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T15:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1362153"},"modified":"2022-03-07T10:17:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T15:17:34","slug":"house-to-include-ukraine-aid-in-government-funding-bill-pelosi-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-to-include-ukraine-aid-in-government-funding-bill-pelosi-says\/","title":{"rendered":"House To Include Ukraine Aid In Government Funding Bill, Pelosi Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-to-include-ukraine-aid-in-government-funding-bill-pelosi-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1362153&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Democratic Party leadership will include $10 billion in \u201chumanitarian, military and economic\u201d aid to Ukraine in its next appropriations bill, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The government funding <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/17\/senate-passes-government-funding-resolution-avoiding-shutdown\/\">bill<\/a> signed by President Joe Biden in February expires Friday, March 11, giving Congress just four days to come to an agreement on another appropriations package. Lawmakers have only <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/30\/house-passes-funding-bill-clearing-way-keep-government-open\/\">agreed<\/a> to a series of short-term <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/02\/rosa-delauro-house-appropriations-congress-deal-senate\/\">resolutions<\/a> since Biden took office, wrangling on various government programs, including federal COVID-19 vaccine <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/25\/chip-roy-government-shutdown-vaccine-mandates\/\">mandates<\/a> and an <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/11\/democrats-internal-revenue-service-banking-information-mike-crapo-irs\/\">expansion<\/a> of the Internal Revenue Service\u2019s authority over privately-held bank accounts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States remains ironclad in our commitment to the Ukrainian people and in unity with our allies,\u201d Pelosi said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speaker.gov\/newsroom\/3622\">statement<\/a>. \u201cAmerican troops will not go to war in Ukraine \u2014 but our nation can provide military equipment and support our allies who are supplying airplanes to Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi also repeated her <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/03\/nancy-pelosi-russian-oil-import-ban\/\">call<\/a> for the U.S. to ban Russian oil imports, adding that Democrats are \u201cexploring strong legislation\u201d that would do so. Those sanctions, likely included in a separate bill, would also end\u00a0the American trade relationship with Russia and Belarus, ban Russia from the World Trade Organization and increase tariffs on Russian imports. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/06\/antony-blinken-active-discussions-us-banning-russian-oil-imports\/\">(RELATED: Blinken: \u2018Very Active Discussions\u2019 Between US, Allies On Banning Russian Oil)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Congress has not yet passed a Ukrainian aid package, although the Biden administration authorized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2022\/02\/26\/biden-ukraine-military-aid-package\/\">sending<\/a> $350 million in missiles, small arms and armor to the besieged eastern European nation on the second day of Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion. Other North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries, including the United Kingdom, Poland and Estonia, have also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/04\/us\/politics\/russia-ukraine-weapons.html\">sent<\/a> weapons.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7386453\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7386453\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7386453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ukrainian-weapons-shipment-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ukrainian-weapons-shipment-1-scaled.jpg 7963w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ukrainian-weapons-shipment-1-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ukrainian-weapons-shipment-1-620x414-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ukrainian-weapons-shipment-1-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ukrainian-weapons-shipment-1-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7386453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BORYSPIL, UKRAINE \u2013 JANUARY 25: Ground personnel unload weapons, including Javelin anti-tank missiles, and other military hardware delivered on a National Airlines plane by the United States military at Boryspil Airport near Kyiv on January 25, 2022 in Boryspil, Ukraine. The U.S., Great Britain and other NATO countries have sent arms in recent days to Ukraine in a bid to deter an invasion. (Photo by Sean Gallup\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The move to couple the Ukraine aid with the broader funding package is likely to anger Republicans in both chambers, who are <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/03\/jen-psaki-refuses-endorse-russia-oil-ban-nancy-pelosi\/\">pushing<\/a> for an <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/01\/house-republicans-joe-biden-energy-policy-state-of-the-union\/\">increase<\/a> in American domestic energy production. Gas prices nationwide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/03\/06\/national-average-for-a-gallon-of-gas-tops-4-the-highest-price-at-the-pump-since-2008.html\">broke<\/a> the $4 mark Sunday for the first time since 2008, when prices <a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/\">reached<\/a> an all-time high of $4.11.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHouse Republicans stand ready to do our part to help make sure the Ukrainian people have the arms and munitions they need to defend themselves,\u201d Republican Chief Deputy Whip Drew Ferguson told the Daily Caller in a recent interview. \u201cI would hope our colleagues on the other side of the aisle would deal with this as a standalone issue, get it done quickly, and not tie it into politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be an absolute shame to do that. It would show division in this country at a time when we need unity. If Nancy Pelosi goes down that road, it\u2019s a further signal that she cares more about politics than she does mankind.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Party leadership will include $10 billion in \u201chumanitarian, military and economic\u201d aid to Ukraine in its next appropriations bill, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said Sunday.The government funding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1362153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1362153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1362153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}