US Withheld Ukraine Military Aid: Washington Post

Read the article from the Washington Post about US aid to Ukraine.    

Seung Min Kim is a White House reporter for The Washington Post, covering the Trump administration through the lens of Capitol Hill. Colby Itkowitz currently covers politics and Congress for The Washington Post. She joined the Post in March 2014. John Wagner in Washington contributed to this report.

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Read a transcript of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s statement: “Because of the wisdom of our Constitution enshrined in three co-equal branches of government serving as checks and balances on each other. The actions taken to date by the president have seriously violated the Constitution especially when the president says Article II says, ‘I can do whatever I want.’ For the past several months, we have been investigating in our committees and litigating in the courts, so the House can gather all the relevant facts and consider whether to exercise its full Article I powers, including a constitutional power of the utmost gravity of articles of impeachment….

“Because of the wisdom of our Constitution enshrined in three co-equal branches of government serving as checks and balances on each other. The actions taken to date by the president have seriously violated the Constitution especially when the president says Article II says, ‘I can do whatever I want.’ For the past several months, we have been investigating in our committees and litigating in the courts, so the House can gather all the relevant facts and consider whether to exercise its full Article I powers, including a constitutional power of the utmost gravity of articles of impeachment.”

Read the document described as “not a verbatim transcript” of the telephone call between the presidents of Ukraine and the United States from NPR.

Read the EU fact sheet on aid for Ukraine.

(Sources: USAID and ForeignAssistance.gov)

(Source: ForeignAssistance.gov)