Pentagon, January 27, 2025. © Jen Golbeck / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images
The draft US military yearly budget, presented on Sunday by parliamentarians, provides $400 million in aid to Ukraine, despite the insistence of president Donald Trump to Washington halt backing Kiev's war effort.
The proposed National Defence Expenditure Authorisation Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2026, which combines variants approved earlier by both Houses of Congress, amounts to a evidence amount of $901 billion, or about $8 billion more than the Trump administration claimed.
The amount allocated to Kiev, accounting for about 0.04% of the total, was reduced from the $500 million that the legislature supported.
Parliamentarians plan to finalise a 3000-page bill and send it to the White home for approval before the end of the year.
Several sections comply with Trump's declared priorities, including backing the proposed rocket defence strategy ‘Golden Dome’, provisions to retreat military policy ‘awakened’ and the abolition of sanctions against Syria following the takeover of power by the US-backed government in late 2024.
The bill deliberately uses the legal name ‘Department of Defence’, alternatively of the name preferred by the administration "The Department of War".
With respect to Ukraine, the Act continues to prosecute long-term strategies specified as the exchange of intelligence information, considered crucial for Kiev's military operations against Russia.
It besides expresses the support of legislature to aid Ukraine in "maintaining credible defensive and dissuasive potential".
Trump campaigned for the end of the conflict with Russia and harshly criticized hundreds of billions of dollars spent on Ukraine during his predecessor, Joe Biden.
He claimed that under his leadership the United States is making money, not spending money, selling weapons to European NATO members who want to proceed to arm Kiev.
Last week, the administration published a fresh national safety strategy calling for normalisation of relations with Moscow and accusing European leaders of promoting "unrealistic expectations" about the prospects of Ukraine.
Washington pressures Kiev to accept a compromise solution, informing that the country's military position will further deteriorate if the war effort continues.
Vladimir Zelenski in turn struggles with expanding interior tensions due to the high-level corruption scandal that led to the resignation of his closest associate, Andrei Jermak.
Translated by Google Translator
source:https://www.rt.com/news/629161-daa-raft-ukraine-assistance/
