{"id":259179,"date":"2025-07-12T14:47:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T14:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/259179\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T14:47:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T14:47:22","slug":"proposed-senate-defense-bill-would-add-500m-in-long-term-ukraine-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/259179\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Senate defense bill would add $500M in long-term Ukraine aid"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Senate\u2019s version of its fiscal 2026 defense policy bill would provide $500 million in long-term security aid to Ukraine<\/a>, a week after the Pentagon temporarily paused<\/a> military equipment heading to the country.<\/p>\n

Under the proposed National Defense Authorization Act, which the Senate Armed Services Committee approved by a 26-1 vote Wednesday, the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative would receive a refresh in funding after the Biden administration emptied it earlier this year.<\/p>\n

That account is one of two main ways the Pentagon has provided military support to Ukraine over the last three years. Rather than directly ship stocks from the U.S. military, it contracts defense firms to build weapons Ukraine needs and then provide them over time.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not nearly enough in terms of scale. But the intent is to show that we believe Ukraine requires additional support,\u201d a congressional aide said on the condition of anonymity while briefing on the bill.<\/p>\n

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The bill would also reauthorize the program through 2028. The House Armed Services Committee chairman\u2019s markup of the 2026 NDAA would do the same, approving $300 million for the account.<\/p>\n

In its late-June budget request<\/a>, the Pentagon didn\u2019t request any money for the program, concluding in a review that it was inconsistent with the president\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n

The bill, which hasn\u2019t yet passed in the Senate overall, also comes only days after the Defense Department temporarily halted weapons deliveries to Ukraine, reportedly after a review of U.S. stockpiles showed warning signs for America\u2019s own military readiness.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t give weapons to everybody all around the world. We have to look out for America and defending our homeland,\u201d Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in his first standalone briefing July 2.<\/p>\n

Parnell said the pause was part of a broader review of American military assistance to countries around the world. He didn\u2019t specify what other countries were affected.<\/p>\n

The White House also confirmed the pause, though it has since disputed that one ever took place, alongside the Pentagon. Shortly after it occurred, President Donald Trump said the U.S. would actually keep supporting Ukraine\u2019s military.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt President Trump\u2019s direction, the Department of Defense is sending additional defensive weapons to Ukraine to ensure the Ukrainians can defend themselves while we work to secure a lasting peace and ensure the killing stops,\u201d Parnell said in a later statement.<\/p>\n

Noah Robertson is the Pentagon reporter at Defense News. He previously covered national security for the Christian Science Monitor. He holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in English and government from the College of William & Mary in his hometown of Williamsburg, Virginia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Senate\u2019s version of its fiscal 2026 defense policy bill would provide $500 million in long-term security aid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[22705,22702,5606,22704,22701,22703,8179,99435,5607,2000,299,8180,657,99436],"class_list":{"0":"post-259179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-circulated-air-force-times","9":"tag-circulated-army-times","10":"tag-circulated-defense-news","11":"tag-circulated-marine-corps-times","12":"tag-circulated-military-times","13":"tag-circulated-navy-times","14":"tag-congress","15":"tag-defense-bill","16":"tag-defense-news","17":"tag-eu","18":"tag-europe","19":"tag-senate","20":"tag-ukraine","21":"tag-ukraine-funding"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114840813208125818","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}