What does the US defense budget look like for 2025

It is noted that the draft defense budget has already been submitted to the Senate for consideration.

According to the journalists of the publication, among the expenses in the amount of 883.7 billion dollars, the following is expected:

• salary increase by 14.5% for junior servicemen,

• and a 4.5% raise for all other military personnel.

Next year, the Pentagon will receive funding for the production of 200 aircraft and 300 units of military transport.

The bill also provides for the creation of a special fund for military aid to Taiwan.

What is known about aid to Ukraine

According to Oksana Markarova, the Ambassador of Ukraine to the USA, the draft law on US defense spending for 2025, adopted by the House of Representatives, does not have a clause regarding the extension of Lend-Lease for Ukraine.

The ambassador noted that the US defense budget approved by the Senate for the next year contained provisions on extending the Lend-Lease Law to protect democracy in Ukraine.

However, the bill approved by the House of Representatives did not contain such a provision. The relevant provision is not included in the consolidated text of the draft law.

According to her, the embassy continues to actively work to preserve this mechanism, which, in particular, is provided for in the bipartisan and bicameral bill "Stand with Ukraine Act".