Pak Sahafat – The New York Times newspaper wrote on Saturday: US government officials predict that if the Republicans Party wins the November 8 mid-term congressional elections, difficulties will increase in the way of the government’s policies regarding Ukraine and Iran.
According to Pak Sahafat News Agency from the New York Times website; Kevin McCarthy, the Republican minority leader of the House of Representatives, said last month (October) that the desire to approve unlimited aid to Ukraine would disappear if his colleagues in this legislative body came to power.
Considering the broad powers of President Hamhouri as the commander-in-chief, Congress has more pressure on Biden in domestic affairs than in foreign policy. Democrats foresee a much more complicated and even more politicized scene if the Republicans win in the legislative bodies, get the chairmanship of the committees and oversee the budget and expenses in the field of national security.
The most worrying picture for the Biden administration is the prospect of a possible slowdown in the flow of money and weapons to Ukraine, which began before the Russian attack in February, and since the beginning of this war, there has been no clarity about how the funds were spent and the use of weapons has reached 60 billion dollars. One possibility is the Republicans’ renewed emphasis on monitoring the use of military weapons and US aid to Ukraine to prevent derailment in a country with a history of deep financial and administrative corruption.
Some Republicans, spurred on by prominent conservatives such as Fox News Anchor Tucker Carlson, are increasingly questioning the value of this aid to Kiev.
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It is possible that the Biden administration will face hot questions from congressional Republicans about how and how the military forces will withdraw from Afghanistan, and the officials related to the congress will be summoned to explain to everyone about how the US military forces will withdraw from Afghanistan.
In 2020, the Republican chairman of a House of Representatives task force on China called for measures such as increasing military spending, imposing new sanctions to punish human rights violations in this country, and more aggressive measures to confront this country’s propaganda.
Also, the Republican members of the Senate and the House of Representatives are willing to put pressure on the Biden government’s policy on Iran, many of whom have criticized him for not supporting the protesters more.
A Republican victory in Congress would also make it more difficult for Biden to try to revive the 2015 nuclear deal that Trump pulled out of. The great victory of the Republicans in the Senate will make it more difficult to achieve this goal, because according to the 2015 Congress resolution, the two houses can, by expressing their unwillingness to sign a nuclear agreement with Tehran, prevent the President from implementing the powers to lift sanctions.
The possible return of Benjamin Netanyahu to the position of Prime Minister of Israel, who has close ties with the Republican leaders of Congress, will make things even more difficult.