There will not be a new aid package for the Ukraine in 2023.

RT:

The US Senate will not approve a major new foreign aid package this year, including around $60 billion for Ukraine, after failing to reach a deal on domestic border security, leading lawmakers have announced.

Republicans have insisted they will not approve the White House request to send billions of dollars to foreign nations unless the Democrats introduce significant immigration reforms at home.

Majority Leader Chuck Schumer had postponed the Senate’s Christmas break by a week in the hopes of hammering out an agreement. In a joint statement with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday, the two top senators expressed hope that a deal could be reached “early in the new year.”

The statement said senators and the administration of President Joe Biden will use the remainder of the year “to work in good faith toward finalizing” a potential deal.

Unlike the Senate, the Republican-majority House declined to shorten its recess to allow more time for additional talks. Speaker Mike Johnson has called on the White House to present a clear plan on how pouring more money into Ukraine would help it prevail in the conflict with Russia.

There’s all this political theater going on in Washington DC to mask the fact that the political appetite to continue funding the Ukraine war is gone. It is being obfuscated through this disagreement about border security etc.. It gives everyone a convenient excuse as to why they can’t pass a new aid package.

The priority in Washington DC has shifted to Israel and the situation in the Red Sea. At some point, the Ukraine situation will be forgotten similar to how Afghanistan was forgotten following the highly embarrassing exit from Kabul.

Meanwhile, Zelensky is rambling about all sorts of nonsense even though his time is quickly coming to an end.

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