They supported the deal after assurances by the Senate’s Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, and its top Republican, Mitch McConnell, that it would not prevent them passing separate defence funding bills beyond the agreement’s $886 billion. The Fiscal Responsibility Act includes $886 billion for defence spending in the next fiscal year, a figure defence hawks in the Senate felt was inadequate. It came after the Senate passed a debt deal negotiated by Mr McCarthy and President Joe Biden to cut US spending, avoiding a catastrophic default, with the support of defence hawks in the chamber. Kevin McCarthy warned on Monday that an extra US spending package for Ukraine is “not going anywhere” in the House of Representatives, halting any immediate plan to send more money to Kyiv. The Republican House speaker has threatened to block further funding for Ukraine as its forces prepare to launch a long-anticipated counter-offensive.
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