EconomyPoliticsWar The US has declined to offer a further $300M in help to Ukraine. Monday, June 16, 2025

The US Home Appropriations Committee authorised the protection price range for the 2026 fiscal yr, sustaining protection spending at 2025’s degree and refusing to allocate a further $300M for help to Ukraine. Consequently, US protection spending in 2026 will whole $832B. Nevertheless, spending might probably rise to $1T resulting from unspent funds for different functions.

Particularly, the US may allocate $13B subsequent yr for missile protection and house packages associated to the Golden Dome missile defend, $8.5B for 69 F-35 fighters, and $36.9B for shipbuilding, significantly for 2 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers that weren’t included within the Pentagon’s plans. Nevertheless, members of congress didn’t assist an modification to the protection price range invoice that will have elevated help to Ukraine by $300M; it was rejected in a vote. Home Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole warned earlier than the vote that growing funding for Ukraine might jeopardize the protection price range since some Republicans would oppose the modification.