Monica Alba is a White House correspondent for NBC News.
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration and key lawmakers in Congress are actively discussing whether aid to Israel could be linked to more funding for Ukraine as a strategy to pass both spending priorities, according to an administration official and two pro-Ukraine Republican lawmakers.
The short-term spending bill that Biden signed into law last month to avoid a government shutdown didn’t include any new funding for Ukraine, kicking off a debate about how to handle the matter. Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was subsequently ousted last Tuesday, and GOP members are aiming to elect a new speaker this week. In the meantime, no process for considering future aid to Ukraine has taken shape in Congress.
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