Washington: Ukraine and Israel were granted massive financial relief after months of heated negotiation in Congress amid their respective wars as US President Joe Biden signed four bills that also included a military assistance package to Kyiv and Tel Aviv Wednesday.
The package was passed Tuesday by the US Senate and is cumulatively estimated at $95 billion with $61 billion for Ukraine, $26 billion for Israel, and $8 billion for the Indo-Pacific.
Senator Bernie Sanders, who was against the bill wrote on X, former Twitter: “Enough is enough. No more money for [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s war machine.”
