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After winning the midterm elections, Democratic members of the U.S. Congress are seeking to use their spending powers to ramp up support for Ukraine and impose additional sanctions on Russia, according to a Financial Times publication.
Representatives of the Democratic Party plan to form a new package of security aid for Kyiv, the volume of which, according to one aide on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will be about 15 billion dollars.
Ukraine's supporters also hope to use the transitional period before the new Congress is sworn in in January to secure more urgent support.
According to one source among Democratic aides on the HouseForeign Affairs Committee, Kyiv's energy aid "really occupies a very high place on the list of priorities" during this period.
As noted, lawmakers are likely to use the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which must be passed before this Congress ends, as a mechanism to provide aid to Kyiv.
A key priority for Democrats in the new Congress will be pushing amendments to sanctions legislation against Russia, named after the late Senator Lindsey Graham, the committee said. This law, passed with broad bipartisan support, provides financial sanctions on Russia's defense and energy sectors. However, U.S. President Donald Trump never enacted it, instead lifting sanctions on Russian diesel.
"We will fix the Graham bill. It took a year and a half to push for sanctions against Russia, and they were simply rolled back," said another Democratic aide on the committee.
Without a two-thirds vote in both chambers, Democrats cannot prevent Trump from vetoing the bill without support from the opposition.
Committee aides also say they will seek to strengthen oversight of Elon Musk's Starlink satellite network, which Ukraine uses. Last month, there was a mysterious slowdown in the service that hampered defense against Russian attacks.
An aide to Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said the committee informed Musk of the need to preserve all documents related to the slowdown of the network. Senators also sent letters to ports, banks, and organizations involved in Trump's diesel deal with Russia.
Democrats intend to use their oversight powers to conduct a series of investigations into the administration's foreign policy and the president's family business interests.
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