{"id":1459734,"date":"2022-05-02T07:29:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T11:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1459734"},"modified":"2022-05-02T07:29:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T11:29:47","slug":"bipartisan-group-calls-on-house-leadership-to-not-tie-ukraine-aid-to-covid-related-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bipartisan-group-calls-on-house-leadership-to-not-tie-ukraine-aid-to-covid-related-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipartisan Group Calls on House Leadership to Not Tie Ukraine Aid to COVID Related Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fbipartisan-group-calls-on-house-leadership-to-not-tie-ukraine-aid-to-covid-related-funding%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=1459734&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2020-12\/capitol%20%282%29.jpg?h=6b5c5318&#038;itok=XFr9_4Nx\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A bipartisan group of U.S. military veterans in Congress has called on U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to not tie additional aid to Ukraine to COVID-19-relief funding.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi met with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Sunday after telling reporters last week she supported authorizing funding for both in one bill.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden asked Congress to authorize an additional $33 billion in funding for Ukraine in a supplemental bill, which also includes another $10 billion in additional COVID-19 relief money. If those in Congress opposed either funding, the other would be held up.<\/p>\n<p>The bipartisan group says it isn\u2019t \u201cin the best interests of U.S. national security to link further foreign and military aid to Ukraine to unrelated COVID-19 supplemental funding legislation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter was signed by U.S. Reps. Jared Golden, D-Maine, Jake Ellzey, R-Texas, Jimmy Panetta, D-California, and Kaiali\u02bbi Kahele, D-Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUkrainians on the front lines of the war against Russia are counting on expedient, reliable assistance from the U.S.,\u201d they wrote. \u201cIndeed, timely delivery of weapons and supplies has been essential for Ukrainian success thus far in the war. Attaching unrelated COVID-19 legislation \u2013 legislation that is currently tied up in a debate about related public health policies \u2013 adds uncertainty and precious time to the process of passing this crucial aid. Those debates should happen on their own merits, not with Ukraine\u2019s sovereignty and tens of thousands of innocent Ukrainian lives hanging in the balance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They also argue the administration should significantly \u201cramp up the size and scope of U.S. assistance to Ukraine,\u201d but in a comprehensive package, not piecemeal bills every month.<\/p>\n<p>Comprehensive aid would include \u201cmilitary supplies, economic assistance, and traditional foreign aid,\u201d they argue, \u201cintended to demonstrate our sustained commitment to Ukraine, rather than funding assistance in a piecemeal approach every several weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The additional coronavirus relief funding was necessary, Biden said, \u201cto avoid needless deaths in the United States and around the world,\u201d saying it was \u201cmuch needed, life-saving COVID funding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi told reporters Thursday she supported funding for both in one bill. &#8220;I&#8217;m all for that, I think it&#8217;s very important,&#8221; CBS News reported. &#8220;We have emergencies here. We need to have the COVID money, and we need \u2013 time is of the essence because we need the Ukraine money. We need the COVID money. So I would hope that we can do that. That&#8217;s \u2013 this is called legislation and we&#8217;re legislating and we&#8217;ll have to come to terms on how we do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The package includes $20 billion in military assistance, $8.5 billion in economic assistance, and $3 billion in humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s in addition to billions Congress authorized last month.<\/p>\n<p>On March 11, the president approved a $13.6 billion aid package to Ukraine to send weapons and U.S. troops to Europe. On March 16, the White House announced an additional $800 million in security assistance to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>On Feb. 23, Russia invaded Ukraine and has continued to advance further into the country. It recently announced its plan to use Moldova as a launching pad for further attacks.<\/p>\n<p>With concerns about Russia\u2019s plans for other non-NATO countries formerly part of the USSR, Georgia President Salome Zourabichvili met with Pelosi in Washington, D.C., last week. The House also passed the Georgia Support Act on Wednesday. The bipartisan bill filed by Reps. Gerry Connolly, D-VA, and Adam Kinzinger, R-IL, recognizes Georgia\u2019s commitment to democratic values and affirms America\u2019s opposition to Russian aggression.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Zelenskyy said Pelosi\u2019s visit was \u201ca powerful signal of support from the people of the United States,\u201d the Irish Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi said she and others were visiting him to thank him for Ukraine\u2019s fight for freedom, saying, \u201cYou\u2019re fight is a fight for everyone. Our commitment is to be there for you until the fight is done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bipartisan group of U.S. military veterans in Congress has called on U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to not tie additional aid to Ukraine to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1459734","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\/1459734","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\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1459734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459734\/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=1459734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}