{"id":37801,"date":"2023-09-15T07:22:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T07:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=37801"},"modified":"2023-09-15T07:22:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T07:22:03","slug":"zelenskyy-is-to-visit-white-house-and-capitol-hill-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/09\/15\/zelenskyy-is-to-visit-white-house-and-capitol-hill-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy is to visit White House and Capitol Hill next week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ukrainian President\u00a0Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/strong>\u00a0is expected at the White House and on Capitol Hill next week as he visits the U.S. during the United Nations General Assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zelenskyy\u2019s trip comes as Congress is debating President Joe Biden\u2019s request to provide as much as $24 billion in military and humanitarian aid<\/strong> for Ukraine<\/strong> as it fights the Russian invasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive visit, said Zelenskyy will meet with Biden at the White House next Thursday. The trip to the Capitol was confirmed by two congressional aides granted anonymity to discuss the plans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ukrainian president made a\u00a0wartime visit to Washington<\/strong>\u00a0in December 2022 and delivered an impassioned address to a joint meeting of Congress. At the time it was his first known trip outside his country since Russia invaded in February of that year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his speech to cheering lawmakers<\/strong>, Zelenskyy thanked Americans for helping to fund the war effort and said that the money is \u201cnot charity,\u201d but an \u201cinvestment\u201d in global security and democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Details of Zelenskyy\u2019s visit next week were not yet being made public. It was first reported by Punchbowl News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The White House National Security Council declined to comment on Zelenskyy\u2019s plans, including whether he would meet with Biden at the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, the Treasury and State departments announced they were imposing new sanctions<\/strong> on more than 150 individuals and entities connected with Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the U.S. was \u201ccontinuing our relentless work to target Russia\u2019s military supply chains and deprive (Russian President Vladimir) Putin of the equipment, technology, and services he needs to wage his barbaric war on Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congress is increasingly divided over providing additional funding for Ukraine as the war is well into its second year. Biden has sought a package of $13.1 billion in additional military aid for Ukraine and $8.5 billion for humanitarian support. It also includes $2.3 billion for financing and to catalyze donors through the World Bank. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But conservative Republican lawmakers have been pushing for broad federal spending cuts and some of those allied with Donald Trump, the former president, are specifically looking to stop money to Ukraine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congress is working to pass its annual appropriations bills<\/strong> before a Sept. 30 deadline to keep the U.S. government running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian President\u00a0Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u00a0is expected at the White House and on Capitol Hill next week as he visits the U.S. during the United Nations General Assembly. Zelenskyy\u2019s trip comes as Congress is debating President Joe Biden\u2019s request to provide as much as $24 billion in military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine as it fights the Russian invasion. An administration official, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":37802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[6850,7358,9831,5178,9649,3189,7241,6693,10000,10391,11606,9127,9643,2264,8251,5252,9343,5805,2471,9833,5572,6779,5612,7693,12085,12727,3805,71,6944,3457,5217,5713,5655,5752,10041,6675,5180,5555,7999,10701,11255,5251,2354,6571,2982,10415,36,2920,11113,7932],"class_list":["post-37801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-aid","tag-bank","tag-barbaric","tag-biden","tag-capitol","tag-capitol-hill","tag-charity","tag-congress","tag-conservative","tag-declined","tag-democracy","tag-february","tag-fund","tag-government","tag-humanitarian-aid","tag-invasion","tag-investment","tag-janet-yellen","tag-joe-biden","tag-meeting","tag-military","tag-military-aid","tag-money","tag-national-security","tag-nations","tag-package","tag-president","tag-putin","tag-republican","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-sanctions","tag-security","tag-security-council","tag-speech","tag-technology","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian","tag-united-nations","tag-united-nation-general-assembly","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-war","tag-washington","tag-white","tag-white-house","tag-work","tag-world","tag-world-bank","tag-yellen","tag-zelenskyy"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37804,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37801\/revisions\/37804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}