PNN – The speaker of the US House of Representatives once again opposed the president of this country to facilitate the process of approving the budget related to the provision of emergency aid to Ukraine.
According to the International group of Pakistan News Network, Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, resisted US President Joe Biden’s efforts to revive the suspended laws regarding sending aid to Ukraine and said the Republican-led House of Representatives won’t take up the plan unless Democrats agree to tougher immigration crackdowns and tougher enforcement along the U.S.-Mexico border.
According to the New York Times, Johnson’s latest ultimatum to Biden casts more doubt on the prospect of Congress agreeing to the US president’s request to provide tens of billions of dollars in emergency aid to support Ukraine against Russia.
After leaving the White House and meeting with Biden and other leaders of the American Congress, Johnson told reporters: I repeated to the president what I have been saying for months. My point is that we need to make fundamental changes in border policies. We must insist on this issue so that our borders are the main priority of the government.
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Republicans insist that the president’s proposed package to support Ukraine should be accompanied by measures to crack down on illegal immigrants on the southwest border of the United States. There is a high possibility that Biden’s request will not find a way to be implemented, despite the extreme right-wing groups in the House of Representatives exerting significant pressure for the implementation of stricter immigration policies.
Biden had called on top lawmakers from both parties in an urgent effort to remove obstacles to aid to Ukraine. In this meeting, he emphasized that Congress should approve the budget for air defense and artillery capabilities for Ukraine so that the country can continue to defend itself against Russian attacks.
In this meeting, Biden tried to talk about the strategic consequences of ignoring Ukraine for the United States of America and the world, and emphasized the alleged issue that the continued opposition of the Congress endangers the national security of the United States of America and the NATO alliance and the rest of the world.
House Republicans have long insisted they need to see significant changes to Biden’s border policies before agreeing to a vote on funding for emergency aid to Ukraine. On the other hand, the Democrats of the House of Representatives say that the efforts for both demands must go together, otherwise none of them will be achieved at all.