{"id":46601,"date":"2024-01-18T16:17:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T06:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=46601"},"modified":"2024-01-18T16:17:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T06:17:31","slug":"biden-warns-republicans-at-ukraine-aid-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=46601","title":{"rendered":"Biden warns Republicans at Ukraine aid talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President Joe Biden warned Republicans Wednesday that blocking vital US military aid for Ukraine threatened the &#8220;free world&#8221; as talks with congressional leaders at the White House failed to produce a breakthrough.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>US assistance for Ukraine has dried up with Republicans refusing to approve Biden&#8217;s request for $60 billion for Kyiv until the Democrat bows to their demands for measures to curb migration over the Mexican border.<\/p>\n<p>The bitter partisan battle has been intensified by the looming US presidential election in November, and has raised deep concerns among Western allies who fear it could harm Kyiv&#8217;s fight against Russia&#8217;s invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Biden told the visiting House and Senate leaders that the months-long standoff &#8220;endangers the United States&#8217; national security, the NATO alliance, and the rest of the free world,&#8221; the White House said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The president called on Congress to quickly provide additional funding to support Ukraine and send a strong signal of US resolve. The president also made clear that we must act now to address the challenges at the border.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Republican House speaker Mike Johnson said it was a &#8220;productive meeting&#8221; but insisted Biden needed to do more on migration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden warned Republicans Wednesday that blocking vital US military aid for Ukraine threatened the &#8220;free world&#8221; as talks with congressional leaders at the White House failed to produce a breakthrough. US assistance for Ukraine has dried up with Republicans refusing to approve Biden&#8217;s request for $60 billion for Kyiv until the Democrat bows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[256],"class_list":["post-46601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-biden-warns-republicans-at-ukraine-aid-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}