The Republican leader of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, indicated on Wednesday that he would submit separate texts releasing funds for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. “We expect the final vote on these bills to take place Saturday evening, ” he wrote in a letter to elected officials.
A package of $60 billion in military and economic assistance for Ukraine was adopted in the Senate in February. But Republicans in the House refused to consider this text - due, among other things, to a dispute over the issue of immigration. This new batch of texts announced Monday must first be adopted by the Republican-majority House. It will then be studied by the Senate with a Democratic majority before possibly arriving on Joe Biden's desk so that he can promulgate them. The American president spoke on Monday with the Republican "speaker" of the House, Mike Johnson, at the origin of the proposal, and insisted to the latter on "the need to move forward this week."