Ukraine Advances in Senate


After two weeks of delay, caused by Republicans playing politics, the Senate has cleared the cloture hurdle for a Ukraine aid bill, 78-17. In addition to providing assistance to Ukraine and sanctioning Russia for its invasion of Crimea, the bill includes some IMF reform that has proved controversial with Republicans.
Russian military personnel surround a Ukrainian military base in Perevalnoe, Crimea, on March 19. Ukrainian troops have been encircled by pro-Russian forces in their bases for days With Russian forces positioned threateningly on the Ukrainian border, lawmakers are blaming one another for slowing Washington’s response to the crisis.Most Senate Democrats, joined by the White House and a handful of Republicans, want to include the IMF reforms while most Republicans in the House and Senate oppose doing so.Democrats argue the IMF reforms belong in the bill because they would allow the international bank to lend more money to the cash-strapped new Ukrainian government. Republicans say they want to handle the IMF matter in a separate bill they can fully debate and amend.Significantly, the IMF reforms are not included in a new bill that the Republican-controlled House could vote on this week.

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Concluding this idea from the advances because they'll take any hostage they possibly can, even assistance to Ukraine.But getting it past Senate Republicans might have been the easy fight here, because the House has already voted on one proposal for Ukraine aid that doesn't include the IMF language, and as of now doesn't intend to include it in a second package it is likely to take up Tuesday. The barrier for Republicans seems to be that the administration has requested the IMF reforms.