The House of Representatives will vote on Tuesday on a package of 17.6 billion dollars for Israel which Joe Biden opposes, the American president demanding that these funds be coupled with aid for Ukraine.
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Republicans in Congress and the Democratic leader are engaged in a thorny standoff over American aid to these two countries.
Conservative parliamentarians, most of them close to Donald Trump, want at all costs to release new funds for Israel, a historic ally of the United States, at war against Hamas.
But many of them oppose the validation of new funds for Kyiv, believing that it is not up to the American taxpayer to finance a conflict which is getting bogged down.
Aware that the sense of urgency has faded in Washington since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Joe Biden has been demanding since October that the envelopes for the two countries appear in the same bill. .
The vote on Israel, called Tuesday by the Republicans in the House of Representatives, is a way of trying to force his hand.
To be approved, this bill must be voted on by the House and the Senate and then signed into law by the president.
However, the Democratic general staff announced that they would vote against this text and Joe Biden has already warned that he would veto it.
