{"id":488302,"date":"2022-05-02T09:24:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T03:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=488302"},"modified":"2022-05-02T10:10:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T04:40:46","slug":"russian-oligarchs-to-be-targeted-in-aid-package-for-ukraine-us-lawmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/russian-oligarchs-to-be-targeted-in-aid-package-for-ukraine-us-lawmaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian oligarchs to be targeted in aid package for Ukraine: US lawmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said on Sunday he will add provisions to a $33 billion Ukraine aid package to allow the United States to seize Russian oligarchs&#8217; assets and send money from their sale directly to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ukraine needs all the help it can get and, at the same time, we need all the assets we can put together to give Ukraine the aid it needs,&#8221; Schumer said at a media briefing in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden asked Congress to approve $33 billion in assistance for Kyiv on Thursday in what would mark a dramatic escalation of U.S. funding for Ukraine more than two months after it was invaded by Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said on Sunday he will add provisions to a $33 billion Ukraine aid package to allow the United States to seize Russian oligarchs&#8217; assets and send money from their sale directly to Ukraine. &#8220;Ukraine needs all the help it can get and, at the same time, we need all the assets we can put together to give Ukraine the aid it needs,&#8221; Schumer said at a media briefing in New York City. President Joe Biden asked Congress to approve $33 billion in assistance for Kyiv on Thursday in what would mark a dramatic escalation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}