"It was tense": Biden meets with congressmen on Ukraine aid package
"We can't afford to wait a month, two months, or three months. Because in that case, we will probably lose the war," says Senate Democratic leader
Senate Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called today's meeting at the White House with President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and other congressional leaders "one of the most intense" of his life.
Source. This was reported by CNN.
Schumer said that he, along with the president, vice president, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, "made it clear how vital assistance to Ukraine is to the United States."
"We cannot afford to wait a month, two months or three months. Because if we do, we will probably lose the war," Schumer said.
The Speaker of the House, Republican Mike Johnson, is under pressure to vote for an aid package that includes $60 billion for Ukraine. The package was previously approved by the US Senate, but Johnson refused to bring it to a vote because it did not include the increased control over the southern border of the US that Republicans want.
Schumer is demanding that Johnson fulfil his commitments to help Ukraine, saying that Democrats have a tough plan to secure the border.
The Speaker of the House, in turn, told reporters at the White House that he believes Congress "must first take care of America's needs," including the specific situation at the border, before considering foreign aid.
"The most important priority of our country is our border, and we need to secure it," Johnson added.
Chuck Schumer said that the participants of the meeting with Biden discussed how the refusal to support Ukraine could lead to a split in NATO and push allies away from America.
At the end of last week, Schumer visited Ukraine at the head of a congressional delegation and said that the trip left him "stunned" as Ukrainians "are fighting unarmed against a brutal dictator".
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