Congress backs Ukraine aid and sets automatic Russia sanctions.
H.R. 2913 — Ukraine Support Act · Filed by Gregory Meeks (D-NY) · 43 cosponsors · Introduced Apr 14, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill gives money and weapons to Ukraine. It funds Radio Free Europe and loans to Ukraine and NATO countries. It creates a fund to help rebuild Ukraine. It sets up automatic punishments for Russia if it keeps attacking. These punishments include stopping Russian banks and energy companies from trading. The bill blocks Russian goods and taxes them at very high rates.
Who it affects
Ukraine gets military aid, loans, and help rebuilding. U.S. and NATO countries get stronger defense ties. U.S. families may pay more for energy and metals. Russia's banks, oil and gas companies, and trade face strict limits.
One thing to notice
The president can trigger automatic sanctions on Russia without Congress approval each time. The bill puts a 500 percent tax on Russian goods and bans refined oil from Russian crude.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
43 cosponsors: 42 Democrats, 1 Republicans.
- Apr 14, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Apr 14, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on the Budget and House Committee on Armed Services · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and…”
- Jun 4, 2026 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 226 - 195 (Roll no. 207). (text: CR H3877-3886)”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
3 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 3 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $240,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 16 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 61% of bills with any report.
Gregory Meeks, who sponsored the bill, received $952,928 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Heritage Action for America — $140,000 in 1 report
- Council on Radionuclides and Radiopharmaceuticals — $50,000 in 1 report
- Razom, Inc. — $50,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- sanctions — Punishments a country uses, like blocking banks or stopping trade, to pressure another country.
- automatic — Happens by itself without someone having to decide each time.
- NATO — A group of countries that work together on defense and security.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (50,012 characters) on Jul 9, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,206 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 17, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-17.
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