the House of Representatives will vote on Saturday on aid to Ukraine and Israel

In a letter to elected officials, the leader of the Republicans estimates that the final vote could take place “Saturday evening”.

A highly anticipated vote beyond the borders of the United States. The American House of Representatives will vote on Saturday April 20 on separate texts releasing funds for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, the Republican head of the institution, Mike Johnson, said on Wednesday. “We expect the final vote on these bills to take place on Saturday evening”he wrote in a letter to elected officials, consulted by AFP.

Bedroom “must adopt urgently” the proposed laws on new aid to Ukraine and Israel and on humanitarian aid for Gaza, for his part urged Joe Biden, in an article published by the Wall Street Journal. “If both countries are fully capable of defending their own sovereignty, they depend on American aid to do so, including in arms. And we are at a pivotal moment”writes the Democratic president.

If it is adopted by the Republican-majority House, the batch of texts will then be studied by the Democratic-majority Senate, before possibly arriving on Joe Biden’s desk for promulgation.

Ukraine is desperately short of ammunition in its war against Russia and American funds are exhausted. “Ukraine needs immediate measures to strengthen its air defense”, pleaded Volodymyr Zelensky on X with the head of NATO, after the strike which left several dead in Chernihiv on Wednesday. In February, a package of $60 billion in military and economic assistance for Ukraine was adopted in the Senate. But Republicans in the House of Representatives refused to consider the text, due, among other things, to a dispute over the issue of immigration.

For its part, Israel faced a direct and unprecedented attack from Iran on the night of Saturday to Sunday, in the context of high regional tensions.