When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky steps to the House of Representatives rostrum to address the body that is poised to approve more than $40bn in defence and economic assistance for his country’s fight against Russia, it will be his last chance to thank the 117th Congress for the bipartisan comity that has seen the US send nearly $90bn to Kiev since the war began 300 days ago.
In a letter to her House colleagues, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi noted that the Ukrainian actor turned wartime leader’s address to Congress comes just over eight decades to the day her father, then Maryland Representative Thomas D’Alessandro Sr, watched British Prime Minister Winston Churchill exhort the House and Senate to be full partners in the UK’s fight against Hitler.
