{"id":22630,"date":"2026-05-13T17:02:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/independents-signature-forces-house-vote-on-ukraine-aid\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T17:02:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:02:53","slug":"independents-signature-forces-house-vote-on-ukraine-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/independents-signature-forces-house-vote-on-ukraine-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent&#8217;s signature forces House vote on Ukraine aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A bill that would deliver new aid to Ukraine and sanction Russia is set to get a House vote in the coming weeks after a bipartisan group of lawmakers completed a discharge petition forcing it to the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/260571\" data-person-id=\"260571\">Kevin Kiley<\/a> (I-Calif.) delivered the decisive 218th signature Wednesday on the effort to push the Ukraine Support Act through the House over the objections of Republican leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/51521\" data-person-id=\"51521\">Gregory Meeks<\/a> of New York, the top Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee, launched the discharge effort almost a year ago. Now Democrats are planning to force the vote the first week of June, according to three people granted anonymity to describe privare plans.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the latest headache for Speaker <a>Mike Johnson<\/a>, who has already seen a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/11\/24\/house-discharge-petitions-mike-johnson-00666557\" target=\"_blank\">staggering number of discharge petitions<\/a> succeed this Congress and is now seeking to unify his conference around a party-line immigration enforcement bill.<\/p>\n<p>A pair of centrist House Republicans, Reps. <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/254452\" data-person-id=\"254452\">Brian Fitzpatrick<\/a> of Pennsylvania and <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/227109\" data-person-id=\"227109\">Don Bacon<\/a> of Nebraska, had already signed the Ukraine petition and had been lobbying GOP colleagues for months to join them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA message to our Ukrainian friends: Help is on the way,\u201d Fitzpatrick said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, introduced by Meeks, would provide $1.3 billion in aid to Ukraine and implement new sanctions on Russia amid the four-year war between the two countries. The bill also reaffirms U.S. support for Ukraine and the importance of NATO.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill that would deliver new aid to Ukraine and sanction Russia is set to get a House vote in the coming weeks after a bipartisan group of lawmakers completed a discharge petition forcing it to the floor. Rep. Kevin Kiley (I-Calif.) delivered the decisive 218th signature Wednesday on the effort to push the Ukraine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}