WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden has called major allies to reassure them of constant Washington support for Kyiv, even as renewed political disorder in the US placed new military assistance in deeper jeopardy, Western media reported on Tuesday.
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President Biden spoke with several Western leaders to cool nerves following new aid for Kyiv was dropped from an agreement in Congress to evade a government shutdown on Saturday, amid opposition from Republicans.
Earlier, Biden welcomed an agreement to avoid a government shutdown but called for Congress to quickly pass on aid to Ukraine following it was left out of the deal, US media reported on Saturday.
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The statement comes as the US Congress passed a stopgap funding bill Saturday in a rare show of cross-party unity to keep federal departments running for the next 45 days and avert a harmful government shutdown. The Democratic-dominated Senate voted 88-9 to approve the measure to avert the federal government’s fourth partial shutdown in a decade, sending it to the US President to sign into law before the 0401 GMT deadline.
