* . *
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact
Sunday, October 19, 2025
Earth-News
  • Home
  • Business
  • Entertainment
    Placer County town of Loomis considers entertainment zone for downtown – CBS News

    Loomis Unveils Thrilling New Entertainment Zone to Revitalize Downtown

    CT Culture Corner: Robert Redford films to watch – CT Insider

    CT Culture Corner: Robert Redford films to watch – CT Insider

    Elmira’s New Entertainment Venue ‘Centertown Social’ Adding its Final Touches – WENY News

    Elmira’s New Entertainment Venue ‘Centertown Social’ Adding its Final Touches – WENY News

    Bella Thorne Shows Off Her Toned Abs in Crop Top – Yahoo

    Bella Thorne Shows Off Her Toned Abs in a Chic Crop Top

    Bricktown continues to thrive as OKC’s entertainment district – OKC VeloCity

    Bricktown Shines as Oklahoma City’s Premier Entertainment Hotspot

    This Haunting ‘60s Country Song Is Even More Tragic Than You Remember – Yahoo

    This Haunting ’60s Country Song Will Break Your Heart All Over Again

  • General
  • Health
  • News

    Cracking the Code: Why China’s Economic Challenges Aren’t Shaking Markets, Unlike America’s” – Bloomberg

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Trending Tags

    • Trump Inauguration
    • United Stated
    • White House
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Technology
    How a Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway – blog.google

    How a Gemma Model Revealed a Breakthrough Pathway for Cancer Treatment

    Italian Technology in Manufacturing: Supporting North American Industries and Keeping Production Local – Thomasnet

    How Italian Technology is Revolutionizing North American Manufacturing and Boosting Local Production

    Guide to Proteomics Project Planning: Sample Preparation Strategies – Technology Networks

    Guide to Proteomics Project Planning: Sample Preparation Strategies – Technology Networks

    DLG−Agrifuture Concept Winners 2025 announced – Visionary Ideas in agricultural technology recognized – TheNewsMarket

    Meet the Visionary Innovators Revolutionizing Agricultural Technology in 2025

    Spanning the Gulf: Global Defence Technology 155 – Army Technology

    Spanning the Gulf: Exploring Cutting-Edge Global Defence Technology

    A Nobel Prize for explaining when technology leads to growth – NPR

    Nobel Prize Awarded for Unraveling How Technology Drives Economic Growth

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Business
  • Entertainment
    Placer County town of Loomis considers entertainment zone for downtown – CBS News

    Loomis Unveils Thrilling New Entertainment Zone to Revitalize Downtown

    CT Culture Corner: Robert Redford films to watch – CT Insider

    CT Culture Corner: Robert Redford films to watch – CT Insider

    Elmira’s New Entertainment Venue ‘Centertown Social’ Adding its Final Touches – WENY News

    Elmira’s New Entertainment Venue ‘Centertown Social’ Adding its Final Touches – WENY News

    Bella Thorne Shows Off Her Toned Abs in Crop Top – Yahoo

    Bella Thorne Shows Off Her Toned Abs in a Chic Crop Top

    Bricktown continues to thrive as OKC’s entertainment district – OKC VeloCity

    Bricktown Shines as Oklahoma City’s Premier Entertainment Hotspot

    This Haunting ‘60s Country Song Is Even More Tragic Than You Remember – Yahoo

    This Haunting ’60s Country Song Will Break Your Heart All Over Again

  • General
  • Health
  • News

    Cracking the Code: Why China’s Economic Challenges Aren’t Shaking Markets, Unlike America’s” – Bloomberg

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Trending Tags

    • Trump Inauguration
    • United Stated
    • White House
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Technology
    How a Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway – blog.google

    How a Gemma Model Revealed a Breakthrough Pathway for Cancer Treatment

    Italian Technology in Manufacturing: Supporting North American Industries and Keeping Production Local – Thomasnet

    How Italian Technology is Revolutionizing North American Manufacturing and Boosting Local Production

    Guide to Proteomics Project Planning: Sample Preparation Strategies – Technology Networks

    Guide to Proteomics Project Planning: Sample Preparation Strategies – Technology Networks

    DLG−Agrifuture Concept Winners 2025 announced – Visionary Ideas in agricultural technology recognized – TheNewsMarket

    Meet the Visionary Innovators Revolutionizing Agricultural Technology in 2025

    Spanning the Gulf: Global Defence Technology 155 – Army Technology

    Spanning the Gulf: Exploring Cutting-Edge Global Defence Technology

    A Nobel Prize for explaining when technology leads to growth – NPR

    Nobel Prize Awarded for Unraveling How Technology Drives Economic Growth

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
No Result
View All Result
Earth-News
No Result
View All Result
Home Science

Zelenskyy asks Congress for more aid. This time, it’s a tougher sell.

September 22, 2023
in Science
Zelenskyy asks Congress for more aid. This time, it’s a tougher sell.
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Nine months after he got a standing ovation before a joint session of Congress, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy returned today – under notably different circumstances – to make a pitch for more U.S. aid.

Aware that America’s enthusiasm for the war effort had eroded significantly, President Zelenskyy said Ukraine was making progress and using U.S. aid effectively, but that further support was necessary to protect the global world order.

Why We Wrote This

The Ukrainian president’s U.S. visit comes as Congress heads toward a possible shutdown and 55% of Americans oppose additional aid to Ukraine.

A strong bipartisan contingent of senators, along with President Joe Biden, agrees with him. If Russian President Vladimir Putin wins in Ukraine, they argue, his next target will be a NATO member – which America is treaty-bound to protect. That could draw U.S. forces into a direct conflict with Russia.

But the timing couldn’t have been worse. With funding for the U.S. government set to run out Sept. 30, Congress is locked in a stalemate over spending – and appears to be heading for a shutdown. Lawmakers, mostly on the GOP side, are balking at spending taxpayer dollars on a country that, 19 months into the fighting, lacks a clear path to victory and has a notorious history of corruption.

“I just don’t have much confidence that our money is being well spent,” says GOP Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas.

Nine months after he got a standing ovation before a joint session of Congress, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy returned today – under notably different circumstances – to make a pitch for more U.S. aid. 

Aware that America’s enthusiasm for supporting the war effort had eroded significantly, President Zelenskyy urged the U.S. to stay the course. According to senators who attended the closed-door briefing, he said Ukraine was making progress and using U.S. aid effectively, but that further support was necessary to protect the global world order.

Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, a Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, summed up Mr. Zelenskyy’s argument as: “We have lived up to our end of the bargain, and we hope you see that and don’t choose this inflection point to abandon us.”

Why We Wrote This

The Ukrainian president’s U.S. visit comes as Congress heads toward a possible shutdown and 55% of Americans oppose additional aid to Ukraine.

A strong bipartisan contingent of senators, along with President Joe Biden, agree with the Ukrainian leader. If the U.S. doesn’t help Ukraine against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion, they argue, his next target will likely be a member of NATO – which America is treaty-bound to protect. And that could draw U.S. forces into a direct conflict with Russia. 

“It’s really pay now – or pay a lot more later to stop Putin,” says Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, who sits on the Armed Services Committee and has visited Ukraine four times.

But the timing couldn’t have been worse for President Zelenskyy’s in-person request. With funding for the U.S. government set to run out Sept. 30, Congress is locked in a stalemate over spending – and appears headed for a government shutdown. Amid ballooning deficits and record-high national debt, Republicans are scrutinizing every dollar in proposed budgets for domestic priorities. And more lawmakers, mostly on the GOP side, are balking at spending taxpayer dollars on a country that, 19 months into the fighting, lacks a clear path to victory and has a notorious history of corruption.

Republican Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas says he can’t support any more aid for Ukraine while the U.S. border remains unsecured. “Until we have a plan to secure the southern border, you can count me out for any more funding for Ukraine.”

Mr. Zelenskyy’s firing of all six of Ukraine’s deputy defense ministers shortly before his visit, after sacking the defense minister himself earlier this year, was broadly seen as an effort to clean house.

A U.S. government oversight effort involving 20 different organizations said in a March report that despite receiving 189 complaints alleging misconduct involving U.S. aid to Ukraine, investigations had “not substantiated significant waste, fraud, or abuse.” However, it also noted that it was difficult to conduct “end-use monitoring” because of the lack of U.S. personnel in Ukraine. Senate Republicans are pushing to create a special inspector general position to oversee Ukraine aid.  

“I just don’t have much confidence that our money is being well spent,” says GOP Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas, who supported the initial U.S. aid package after Russia’s February 2022 invasion. Overall, the U.S. has appropriated $113 billion – only about 0.5% of GDP but far more than he and his colleagues have proposed spending to secure the southern border, an issue he says matters more to his constituents.

“Until we have a plan to secure the southern border, you can count me out for any more funding for Ukraine,” said Senator Marshall, one of six GOP senators and 23 House Republicans to sign a letter to the Biden administration today opposing its request for an additional $24 billion.

SOURCE:

Kiel Institute for the World Economy

As he met with Mr. Zelenskyy this afternoon, Mr. Biden announced a new $325 million military aid package, which is to be drawn from existing Pentagon inventory and thus does not need congressional approval.

In the early days of the war, Mr. Zelenskyy’s courage in staying in Kyiv even as top U.S. military and intelligence officials predicted it would soon fall to Russia earned him great respect – and strong bipartisan support for two initial rounds of aid, at $13.6 billion and $40 billion respectively. 

But a year and a half later, with estimated war deaths exceeding 150,000 and a major Ukrainian counteroffensive failing to make much ground, the initial support seen in blue-and-yellow flags hung outside homes across America has weakened. A CNN survey in August found that 55% of Americans oppose sending more aid to Ukraine. Among the 45% in favor, older people and Democrats were the most supportive.

“They want to be supportive,” says GOP Sen. Ron Johnson of his Wisconsin constituents. But mounting U.S. deficits and the appearance of a stalemate in Ukraine make them hesitant, he adds. “I think they recognize reality.”

Senator Johnson voted for the $40 billion package in May 2022, hoping Mr. Putin would rethink his invasion and stop. Now he’s convinced the Russian leader will not under any circumstances lose this war, even if it means resorting to nuclear weapons.  “What the Biden admin should be doing, quietly – and it should be quiet – is figuring out some way to bring this war to an end,” he says.

Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin voted for the $40 billion aid package in May 2022. But now he’s convinced Ukraine can’t win against Russia, and says the Biden administration should be “figuring out some way to bring this war to an end.”

Most of the lawmakers registering objections are Republicans. But progressive Democrats have also voiced concerns. Of the House members who voted against the initial $13.6 billion aid package, 54 were Republicans and 15 were Democrats. Last fall, the Progressive Caucus released – and then retracted, amid a firestorm of criticism – a letter calling on President Biden to engage in direct diplomacy with President Putin to find a way to end the war. 

Ukraine’s supporters say just because it’s getting harder to make the case to Americans doesn’t mean Congress shouldn’t try. It’s not only possible, but essential, to address Americans’ domestic concerns while helping Ukraine win its battle with Russia, they argue. 

“We can do both, and we must,” says Senator Blumenthal. He has visited mass graves in Bucha and met with soldiers who lost limbs in the fighting and mothers who lost sons. “We are reliving the atrocities of the 1920s and 1930s,” he says.

Moreover, the U.S. is signatory to a 1994 agreement to protect Ukraine’s sovereignty in exchange for giving up its nuclear arsenal – at the time the third-largest in the world.

Some Republicans say the president needs to make a more forceful case to the American people that helping Ukraine is in the nation’s interest – and that walking away could be disastrous.

“This generalized talk about defending democracy around the world – it’s not wrong, but it’s not enough,” says Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who sits on the Foreign Relations Committee. “I think if we were to walk away from Ukraine, our entire system of alliances around the world would collapse. It would reinforce the narrative being used against our country by our adversaries that we’re weak, that we’re hollowed out. It would be the Afghanistan withdrawal on steroids.”

Editor’s note: The story has been updated with the formal announcement by President Biden – later in the day of President Zelenskyy’s visit – of new aid for Ukraine that doesn’t require congressional approval.

>>> Read full article>>>
Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source : The Christian Science Monitor – https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2023/0921/Zelenskyy-asks-Congress-for-more-aid.-This-time-it-s-a-tougher-sell?icid=rss

Tags: CongressscienceZelenskyy
Previous Post

Forget football. College students are scoring big with esports.

Next Post

Researcher uncovers how stereotypes about brilliance shape women’s decisions to study psychology or philosophy

Lisa Tertsch, Matthew Hauser become world triathlon champions after winning season finals – ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos

Lisa Tertsch, Matthew Hauser become world triathlon champions after winning season finals – ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos

October 19, 2025
Why Trump is giving Argentina a $20 billion lifeline to help its flailing economy – PBS

Why Trump Is Proposing a $20 Billion Lifeline to Save Argentina’s Faltering Economy

October 19, 2025
Placer County town of Loomis considers entertainment zone for downtown – CBS News

Loomis Unveils Thrilling New Entertainment Zone to Revitalize Downtown

October 19, 2025

Miriam Miedzinski-Ballin, trailblazer who made mental health part of first aid, dies at 48 – The Times of Israel

October 19, 2025
Trump Posts Fake Video of Himself Flying a ‘King Trump’ Jet Over Protesters – The New York Times

Trump Posts Fake Video of Himself Flying a ‘King Trump’ Jet Over Protesters – The New York Times

October 19, 2025
Advancing causal inference in ecology: Pathways for biodiversity change detection and attribution – besjournals

Unlocking Nature’s Secrets: Innovative Methods to Detect and Attribute Biodiversity Change

October 19, 2025
Scientists discover concerning phenomenon that could lead to disastrous storms: ‘Exposed to threats’ – Yahoo

Scientists Reveal Shocking Discovery That Could Spark Devastating Storms

October 19, 2025

Oliver Bogler: Tired of Brilliant Science Getting Lost in Confusing Presentations?

October 19, 2025
The Deceptively Simple Soup Gordon Ramsay Once Cooked For Anthony Bourdain – Yahoo

The Surprisingly Simple Soup Gordon Ramsay Created for Anthony Bourdain

October 19, 2025
How a Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway – blog.google

How a Gemma Model Revealed a Breakthrough Pathway for Cancer Treatment

October 19, 2025

Categories

Archives

October 2025
M T W T F S S
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  
« Sep    
Earth-News.info

The Earth News is an independent English-language daily published Website from all around the World News

Browse by Category

  • Business (20,132)
  • Ecology (875)
  • Economy (897)
  • Entertainment (21,768)
  • General (17,685)
  • Health (9,938)
  • Lifestyle (909)
  • News (22,149)
  • People (897)
  • Politics (907)
  • Science (16,107)
  • Sports (21,396)
  • Technology (15,876)
  • World (880)

Recent News

Lisa Tertsch, Matthew Hauser become world triathlon champions after winning season finals – ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos

Lisa Tertsch, Matthew Hauser become world triathlon champions after winning season finals – ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos

October 19, 2025
Why Trump is giving Argentina a $20 billion lifeline to help its flailing economy – PBS

Why Trump Is Proposing a $20 Billion Lifeline to Save Argentina’s Faltering Economy

October 19, 2025
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact

© 2023 earth-news.info

No Result
View All Result

© 2023 earth-news.info

No Result
View All Result

© 2023 earth-news.info

Go to mobile version