{"id":648754,"date":"2022-05-11T15:53:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T15:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=205892"},"modified":"2022-05-11T15:53:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T15:53:17","slug":"biden-signs-bill-reviving-world-war-ii-era-lend-lease-program-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/05\/11\/biden-signs-bill-reviving-world-war-ii-era-lend-lease-program-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Signs Bill Reviving World War Ii-Era Lend-Lease Program To Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden on Monday\u00a0signed a bill into law reviving the World War II-era lend-lease program for Ukraine, paving the way for an escalation in US military aid to Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022 allows Biden to send weapons to Ukraine free of charge while technically requiring payment at a later date. Under the lend-lease act during World War II, the US sent billions of dollars in weapons to the Soviet Union, China, Britain, and other allies.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation received massive bipartisan support in Congress, passing by voice vote in the Senate and by a vote of\u00a0417-10 in the House, with only Republicans voting against the bill.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/biden-signs-bill-reviving-world-war-ii-era-lend-lease-program-to-ukraine\/\">Biden Signs Bill Reviving World War Ii-Era Lend-Lease Program To Ukraine<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/biden-signs-bill-reviving-world-war-ii-era-lend-lease-program-to-ukraine\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden on Monday\u00a0signed a bill into law reviving the World War II-era lend-lease program for Ukraine, paving the way for an escalation in US military aid to Kyiv.<br \/>\nThe Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022 allows Biden to send weapon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5722,11155,24,376,7988,5724],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":649215,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648754\/revisions\/649215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}