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October 5, 2023

Biden Suggests He Might Circumvent Congress to Continue Arming Ukraine
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President Biden called on Republicans to quickly elect a new House
speaker and to change what he called the "poisonous atmosphere in
Washington." Biden said he's worried congressional gridlock threatens to
derail White House efforts to win new funding for U.S. aid to Ukraine -
though Biden said his administration has enough funds in reserve to
continue sending arms shipments for now, and suggested he has a path
around Congress if it fails to approve more funding.

President Joe Biden: "We can support Ukraine in the next tranche that we
need. And there is another means by which we may be able to find funding
for that. But I'm not going to get into that now."

On Wednesday, the Biden administration said it supplied Ukraine with
thousands of assault rifles and more than a million rounds of ammunition
seized in the Persian Gulf by the U.S. Navy. The Justice Department says
the arms were being sent by Iran's Revolutionary Guard to Houthi rebels
in Yemen in violation of a U.N. arms embargo.


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