Overview
- House Foreign Affairs Chair Brian Mast said he does not expect Congress to pass another big Ukraine funding bill, reflecting growing skepticism among Republicans aligned with President Trump.
- Mast said the United States will keep sharing intelligence with Ukraine and will continue to allow weapons sales and transfers even without a new supplemental.
- A bipartisan discharge petition hit the 218 signatures needed to force a House vote on the Ukraine Support Act, using a rarely used rule that lets members bypass the speaker to bring a bill to the floor.
- The Ukraine Support Act would provide more than $1 billion in direct aid and up to $8 billion in loans, and it would add wide sanctions and export controls on Russia’s finance, energy, and mining sectors.
- Limited support continues through executive actions, including a State Department export license notification for arms bound for the Netherlands and Ukraine and a $400 million assistance tranche confirmed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, as backers eye a possible House vote in June.