Republicans in the US Congress and Democratic President Joe Biden are engaged in a standoff over US aid to Israel and Ukraine.
And Congress has not reached an agreement to release an envelope of 17.6 billion dollars for the Jewish state.
Conservative parliamentarians, in the majority in the House and mostly close to Donald Trump, want at all costs to release new funds for Israel, a historic ally of the United States, at war against Hamas.
But many are opposed to the validation of new aid for Ukraine, believing that it is not up to the American taxpayer to finance a conflict which is getting bogged down.
Aware that the sense of urgency has faded in Washington since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Joe Biden has been demanding since October that the envelopes for the two countries appear within the same project of law.
An idea that many Republicans oppose.
“Time is running out” for Ukraine against Russia, President Joe Biden warned on Tuesday, urging the US Congress to urgently approve a new package for kyiv.
As the presidential elections in the United States approach, this specific vote on Israel which also included a section on immigration called by conservatives in the House of Representatives was a way of trying to force the president's hand.
But most Democrats were against this text.
And Joe Biden had already warned that he would veto it if it was adopted.
Indeed, to be approved, this bill would have had to be voted on by the House and the Senate then promulgated by the president.