Zelenskyy meets with Biden and leaders in Congress as time runs out on war aid: Highlights

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said it's "practically impossible" to pass a national security supplemental by the end of the year, noting that the House will leave at the end of the week until 2024. Zelenskyy, in an exclusive interview with NBC News after the joint news conference with Biden, said his meetings with lawmakers were helpful in that he got a chance to offer a detailed explanation of progress in his country’s war against Russia. Today, we answered history’s call at this critical inflection point.With the signing of our national security package, we tell the world that America stands resolutely for democracy and freedom, and against tyranny and oppression.

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But if we don’t stop Putin, it will endanger the freedom of everyone almost everywhere,” Biden said. "We have our people there. We have our families there. We have our children there. That's a part of Ukrainian society, and we are talking about human beings." Zelenskyy said in a Fox News interview that his meeting with Biden and lawmakers on Capitol Hill was "very constructive" and that he heard "positive voices from both parties." My predecessor promised infrastructure week every week for four years, but never built a damn thing.

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Zelenskyy also said that whoever controls the skies controls the war's duration. The Ukrainian president repeatedly thanked Biden and said American leadership is "crucial" in maintaining unity among other world leaders. Zelenskyy highlighted his country's fight for freedom, arguing that the freedom of one country affects others. He said that Ukraine will become a NATO member once all allies agree and conditions are met but that now the U.S. needed to make sure Ukraine wins the war.

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One organizer complained that the White House Correspondents’ Association — which represents the hundreds of journalists who cover the president — largely has been silent since the first weeks of the war about the killings of Palestinian journalists. Protest organizers said they aimed to bring attention to the high numbers of Palestinian and other Arab journalists killed by Israel’s military since the war began in October. “Since the Israel-Gaza war began, journalists have been paying the highest price— their lives—to defend our right to the truth. Protest organizers said they wanted to bring attention to the high numbers of Palestinian and other Arab journalists killed by Israel’s military since the war began in October.

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Other protesters lay sprawled motionless on the pavement, next to mock-ups of flak vests with “press” insignia. Biden, like most of his predecessors, used the glitzy annual White House Correspondents’ Association banquet to jab at his rival, Donald Trump. He followed the jokes with solemn warnings about what he said would happen if Trump won the presidency again.

Zelenskyy and Biden to meet as Ukraine aid package stalls in Congress

My bipartisan infrastructure law has now launched over 51,000 projects across every state and territory in America. Too often, airlines drag their feet on refunds or rip folks off with junk fees.It’s time Americans got a better deal.Today, my Administration is requiring that airlines provide automatic refunds to passengers when they’re owed, and protect them from surprise fees. President Joe Biden’s Speech to Congress on April 28 will be his first speech to Congress as President. As is tradition, the first address to Congress for any new President is called a Joint Address, rather than the State of the Union address. Biden opened his roast with a direct but joking focus on Trump, calling him “sleepy Don,” in reference to a nickname Trump had given the president previously. Biden began his roast with a direct focus on Trump, calling him “sleepy Don,” in reference to a nickname Trump had given the president previously.

This year, Colin Jost, who co-hosts Saturday Night Live‘s “Weekend Update” segment with Michael Che, is the featured entertainer at the event that attracts A-listers, comedians, journalists, prominent politicians and more. President Joe Biden is also set to be in attendance, as well as First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff. "So, all I’ve said is it’s practically impossible, even though we reach an agreement, to craft it, get it through the Senate and get it to the House before Christmas," McConnell continued.

He went on to note that despite being similar in age, the two presidential hopefuls have little else in common.

The president made a grim speech about what he believes is at stake this election, saying that another Trump administration would be even more harmful to America than his first term. “We have to take this serious — eight years ago we could have written it off as ‘Trump talk’ but not after January 6,” Biden told the audience, referring to the supporters of Trump who stormed the Capitol after Biden defeated Trump in the 2020 election. It’s only fitting, really, given the subtext of journalists being jailed around the world.

Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, yesterday dismissed fears of Russia’s military capabilities under President Vladimir Putin and suggested Ukraine should give up some of its land to end the war. "Ukraine will emerge from this war, proud, free and firmly rooted in the West, unless we walk away," Biden said. "The White House has put together a bill, but they’re not the ones, it’s not the White House that’s demanding border as part of Ukraine," he added. When asked by NBC News whether he regretted that the White House had included border funding in their supplemental request, Schumer pointed the finger back at Republicans. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said today that the Senate hasn't given up on passing supplemental Ukraine aid before the end of the year.

And how many politicians have met a photo op they didn’t want to seize for a messaging moment? Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., who is leading the discussions for Republicans, said he still believes negotiators are “making progress” but cautioned that “every day” that goes by without a deal “makes it more complicated” to reach one. All 100 senators are invited to the meeting, which is expected to last about an hour. Zelenskyy plans to address senators in the Mansfield Room at the Capitol just off the Senate floor starting at 9 a.m. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby speaks about why sending additional aid to Ukraine is critical. “Last night, I got on the phone with Speaker Johnson and urged him to keep the House in session to give a supplemental a chance to come together,” Schumer said.

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More than two dozen journalists in Gaza wrote a letter last week calling on their colleagues in Washington to boycott the dinner altogether. Criticism of the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s military offensive in Gaza has spread through American college campuses, with students pitching encampments and withstanding police sweeps in an effort to force their universities to divest from Israel. Counterprotests back Israel’s offensive and complain of antisemitism. More than two dozen journalists in Gaza wrote a letter last week calling on their colleagues in Washington to boycott the dinner altogether.

"I thanked them — all the workers, engineers, managers who build the strength of American weapons," Zelenskyy said of his meeting with the defense companies, according to the pool report. "Let’s get real here, the Republicans have been tying border to Ukraine for a long time, no matter what the White House did," Schumer said. We are trying very, very hard to get this done,” Schumer told reporters today.