Debt-Limit Deal Won’t Restrict US Ability to Fund Ukraine
- Official says Congress can still fund arms via supplementals
- Defense spending growth capped at 3.3% in bipartisan deal
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The bipartisan deal to avert a debt default won’t constrain the Biden administration’s ability to provide more aid for Ukraine, a White House official said, as the US looks to reassure Kyiv that weapons will keep flowing.
Any additional military assistance would move through Congress in a supplemental measure that wouldn’t be subject to the deal’s caps on federal spending, according to the official, who asked not to be identified discussing internal deliberations.