Ukraine aid deadlock could threaten peace in Europe. Does Congress care?

These are desperate, potentially decisive, days in Ukraine’s battle against Vladimir Putin’s invasion forces.

Decisive days on Capitol Hill, too, where House Speaker Mike Johnson this week has been deciding how – and whether – to finesse opposition from hard-line Republican colleagues and enable a floor vote to unblock $60 billion in U.S. military aid for Kyiv.

Urgent though the aid package is – a top U.S. general told Congress Wednesday that Russian forces now had nearly 10 times as many artillery shells