The House of Representatives passed a bill approving an additional $9 billion in aid to Ukraine and placing harsh sanctions on Russia. 

Meanwhile, Trump is pushing for both Russia and Ukraine to make compromises, and Zelensky calls for face-to-face negotiations with Putin in a letter sent to the Russian President.

Trump addressed the letter on Monday, saying, “I think it would be great if they met” and calling on them to “get it done.”

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When asked later about what compromises he wants to see made, the President declined to say but said that “they’re going to make both make compromises,” which he suggested.

“I’ve been very strong on the fact that they’ve got to get that over with,” he said. “I want them each to make certain compromises. I think they’re going to do that.”

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But some House Republicans couldn’t help but interfere.

The bill, which passed on Thursday, with 18 Republicans voting in favor, includes sanctions on Russian banks, oil, and mining companies, as well as a ban on Russian oil imports and 500% tariffs on all other Russian imports to the US.

It also authorized an $8 billion extension of Biden’s lend-lease program for Ukraine to purchase weapons. It also provides Ukraine with $1 billion in security and reconstruction aid.

Per CNN:

The House voted 226 to 195 to approve the package, which cracks down on Russia with new oil and gas sanctions, in its first big pro-Ukraine measure of Trump’s second term.

Speaker Mike Johnson has urged his members to oppose the measure, arguing in a closed-door meeting Wednesday that they should give Trump space to negotiate with Russia, according to a person in that meeting.

But ultimately, 18 Republicans – and one independent who frequently votes with Republicans – voted to pass the bill in what amounts to a rebuke of Trump’s posture toward Russia’s war in Ukraine, eager to send a message to their leadership after the party with Trump at its helm has drifted in recent years away from backing Ukraine as staunchly as it once had. The party is now fractured over the issue, with many Republicans arguing that the US should not send further aid to the war-torn country.

To even bring the bill to the House floor for a vote required a revolt against House GOP leadership. California Rep. Kevin Kiley, an independent who frequently votes with the GOP, was the final signature on a discharge petition — a procedural tool used to circumvent leadership and force votes on the floor. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, a GOP centrist and co-chair of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus, spent months working with Rep. Greg Meeks, a Democrat from New York, to land the 218 signatures needed to fast-track the bill to the floor without Johnson’s approval.

The following Republicans voted in favor:

All votes

Representative	Party	State	Vote
Bacon	Republican	Nebraska	Yea
Bresnahan	Republican	Pennsylvania	Yea
Carey	Republican	Ohio	Yea
Fitzpatrick	Republican	Pennsylvania	Yea
Garbarino	Republican	New York	Yea
Gimenez	Republican	Florida	Yea
Hurd (CO)	Republican	Colorado	Yea
Joyce (OH)	Republican	Ohio	Yea
Kiggans (VA)	Republican	Virginia	Yea
LaLota	Republican	New York	Yea
Lawler	Republican	New York	Yea
McCaul	Republican	Texas	Yea
Miller (OH)	Republican	Ohio	Yea
Murphy	Republican	North Carolina	Yea
Newhouse	Republican	Washington	Yea
Thompson (PA)	Republican	Pennsylvania	Yea
Turner (OH)	Republican	Ohio	Yea
Wilson (SC)	Republican	South Carolina	Yea

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