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Lawmaker: Congress Would Restore Ukraine Military Aid

Nataliya Leonova

   This story originated in [1]VOA's Ukrainian Service. Nataliya Leonova
   reported from Washington and Myroslava Gongadze reported from Kyiv.

   WASHINGTON/KYIV, UKRAINE -- A senior Republican member of the U.S.
   Senate Foreign Relations Committee says that even if President Donald
   Trump refuses to unfreeze $250 million in military aid for Ukraine,
   Congress would replace the funding.

   Senator Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican and chairman of the Foreign
   Relations Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation,
   told the VOA Ukrainian Service Wednesday that even if Trump cancels the
   funding to help the country battle Russian aggression as planned,
   Congress would pass legislation to restore it.

   "Regardless of what decision he makes, I'm very confident that Congress
   will come back in the next fiscal year, which is only right around the
   corner, Oct. 1, and then, through the appropriation process, make sure
   that even if President Trump decides not to spend it, we'll give him no
   option but to spend it," said Johnson, who had just returned from a
   tour of Eastern Europe.

   Johnson, along with his Foreign Relations Committee colleague, Senator
   Chris Murphy, a Democrat of Connecticut, were barred from visiting
   Russia as part of a bipartisan congressional delegation that also had
   stops scheduled in the Balkans and Ukraine.

References

   1. http://ukrainian.voanews.com/

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