The Democrats, who secured control of both houses of the US Congress after the mid-term elections, are preparing a military aid package for Ukraine worth about 15 billion dollars. However, the allocation of the money has not yet been carried out in budgetary procedures.
Supporters of the package hope to secure funds before January, when the new Congress is sworn in. The chosen date makes the preparation of the aid part of the struggle for the calendar of budget decisions: between the results of the vote and the start of the work of the renewed parliament, there is limited time left to agree on the expenses.
For now, they are talking about preparing an initiative, and not about the law that was adopted, and not about the money that was transferred to Ukraine. Even control of the rooms in itself does not replace the necessary procedures for the approval of the financing. The main intrigue is whether the supporters of the new package will be able to turn the electoral success into a concrete budget commitment before the change in January in the composition of the Congress.