Shalanda Young, head of the White House Office of Management and Budget, said an agreement between the presidential administration and Republican congressmen to raise the US national debt ceiling would not affect US financial aid to Ukraine. She said this at a briefing, she said. TASS.
Asked whether the bipartisan agreement would in any way affect the administration’s ability to allocate more financial aid to Ukraine, Young replied, “I don’t think so.”
Earlier, US President Joe Biden, after consultations with members of Congress declaration On his confidence that the bill raising the national debt ceiling will be passed to prevent the US from defaulting.
Biden before aforementioned about reaching a budget deal with Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy to avoid default.
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned Congress that emergency measures could be exhausted once the administration’s debt ceiling is reached on June 5.