{"id":65167,"date":"2023-10-01T01:03:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T01:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2023\/10\/01\/congress-avoids-government-shutdown-drops-ukraine-aid\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:58:09","slug":"congress-avoids-government-shutdown-drops-ukraine-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2023\/10\/01\/congress-avoids-government-shutdown-drops-ukraine-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress avoids government shutdown, drops Ukraine aid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2015 Congress on Saturday passed a short-term funding bill to avoid a government shutdown mere hours before the deadline and after lawmakers dropped additional support for Ukraine from the bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After trying and failing to pass a Republican measure that would slash non-defense spending and enact strict immigration policies, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., reversed course on early Saturday morning and offered a stopgap funding bill similar to the bipartisan Senate version \u2013 minus $6 billion in Ukraine aid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This ensures troops and Defense Department employees will continue receiving their paychecks and avoids furloughing hundreds of thousands of the department\u2019s civilian workers. However, it raises questions about Congress\u2019 ability to pass additional Ukraine assistance only a week after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2023\/09\/21\/zelenskyy-warns-congress-dod-that-kyiv-will-lose-without-aid\/\" target=\"_blank\">President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Capitol Hill in a direct appeal to lawmakers, warning that his country would lose the war<\/a> without more support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The House passed the stopgap measure to fund the government through November 17 in a 335-91 vote. The Senate then passed it in an 88-9 vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Defense Department no longer has funds for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative and the $1.5 billion it has left to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2023\/09\/28\/ukraine-funds-to-backfill-us-stocks-will-expire-amid-gop-opposition\/\" target=\"_blank\">backfill U.S. stockpiles of weapons that have been sent to Kyiv expires on September 30<\/a>. The Pentagon says that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2023\/09\/20\/house-gop-in-no-rush-to-give-more-ukraine-aid-after-6-billion-error\/\">a previous accounting error means it has approximately $5.5 billion in funds<\/a> to keep transferring weapons to Ukraine past the end of the fiscal year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The White House in August asked Congress for an additional $24 billion in additional military and economic aid to Ukraine. But even in the Senate, where Ukraine enjoys broad bipartisan support, appropriators scaled that back to $6 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That amount included $1.5 billion in replenishment funds to backfill U.S. stocks and another $1.5 billion for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, which allows the Pentagon to place contracts for defense manufacturers to build weapons systems for Kyiv over the longer-term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But even an extra $6 billion for Ukraine proved to be too high a bar for McCarthy. While a strong, bipartisan majority of the House still supports Ukraine aid, roughly half the House Republican caucus now opposes it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">House Republican leaders had to strip a separate $300 million in Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative funding from the defense spending bill on Thursday in order to pass that legislation largely along party lines. The House then voted 311-117 to send that $300 million in Ukraine funding separately to the Senate. Dozens more Republicans who had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2023\/07\/13\/house-dems-bail-on-defense-bill-as-gop-votes-to-repeal-abortion-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\">previously voted to preserve that funding in July <\/a>reversed course and voted against it on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dropping the Ukraine aid also allowed the Senate to expeditiously pass the stopgap funding bill. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., had spent the past week delaying votes on the bill to protest the Ukraine aid, but dropped his hold after its removal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congress has passed a cumulative $113 billion in economic and security assistance for Ukraine since Russia\u2019s invasion last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While a shutdown would have been the worst-case scenario for the Defense Department, short-term funding bills still impose considerable constraints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti testified before Congress in September that the Navy will not be able to proceed with procurement on four of its six shipbuilding programs until Congress passes a full fiscal 2024 defense spending bill. 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