President Joe Biden’s supplemental finances request to safe extra funding for Ukraine might be despatched to Capitol Hill as quickly as Thursday, in accordance with White Home press secretary Jen Psaki.
“When it comes to the size or the dimensions, I haven’t got a quantity for you at this level,” Psaki advised reporters at Wednesday’s briefing. “However there’s plans for this to be a proposal to undergo the fiscal 12 months, and it’ll embody — as our previous packages have included — safety or army help, humanitarian financial help.”
Psaki promised that Biden would follow his phrase of delivering the supplemental request earlier than the top of the week.
Final Thursday, Biden introduced that he would make this request of Congress whereas asserting the newest $800 million support package deal for Ukraine.
“I’ve nearly exhausted the drawdown authority I’ve that Congress approved for Ukraine in a bipartisan spending invoice final month. So as to maintain Ukraine in the course of this struggle, subsequent week I will need to be sending to Congress a supplemental finances request to maintain weapons and ammunition flowing with out interruption,” Biden mentioned final week. “My hope and expectation is that Congress would transfer and act rapidly.”
-ABC News’ Molly Nagle
