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MNI POLITICAL RISK ANALYSIS – US Daily Brief 09-05-22

Executive Summary:

  • Today, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) will file cloture on the motion to codify Roe v. Wade and set up a Senate vote on Wednesday.
  • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said yesterday that overturning Roe v. Wade ‘slapped women in the face.’
  • House and Senate appropriators will continue efforts to pass a new package of military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine. The White House has requested USD$33 billion in emergency aid for Ukraine but the package has stalled in Congress amidst partisan disputes on immigration and COVID-19 funding.
  • US Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a call with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba following a G7 meeting on the weekend. Blinken discussed ‘. ..Ukraine’s gains on the battlefield, including the ninth drawdown from US stocks authorised by President Biden and the expanded authorities that will be offered under the Ukraine Democracy Defence Lend-Lease Act of 2022.'
  • President Biden will sign the Ukraine Lend-Lease Act into law this afternoon.


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