White House Official Says President Biden Trying To Convince Trump To Maintain Aid For Ukraine

Jake Sullivan with President Biden. (Wikimedia Commons/The White House)

JAKARTA - White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said the incumbent US President Joe Biden would try for the remainder of his term of office to convince President-elect Donald Trump not to stop aid to Ukraine.

"President Biden will have the opportunity for the next 70 days to express his opinion to Congress and future governments that the United States should not leave Ukraine, that leaving Ukraine means more instability in Europe," he told CBS News.

Sullivan also pointed out that President Biden had promised Ukraine the US Government "will send full resources and aid to Ukraine which Congress has passed" no later than January 20.

As previously reported, Trump, who is paired with JD Vance of the Republican Party, managed to collect more than 270 electoral votes, the minimum limit for winning the US Presidential Election, outperforming his opponent incumbent Vice President Kamala Harris who was paired with the Democratic Walz Team.

Quoted from VOA, Trump won 312 electoral votes, while Harris won 226 electoral votes.

To win the US Presidential Election, a minimum of 270 electoral votes out of a total of 538 electoral votes are needed in 50 states and the District of Columbia.

The White House plans to immediately provide billions of dollars worth of security assistance to Ukraine before President Joe Biden steppes down from office in January, sources said.

The move is expected to strengthen the government in Kyiv before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump on January 20, 2025.

"The government plans to move forward to put Ukraine in the strongest possible position," said a senior government official who did not want to be named, before his term ends in January.

Trump himself is known to have criticized President Biden's government for Ukraine, sparking concerns about the future of support for President Volodomyr Zelensky's government under the White House, Senate, and possibly Republican-controlled House of Representatives.

Prior to the US Presidential Election, Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said Ukraine believed the United States' support would continue despite whoever came out victorious, citing what he called strong bipartisan support.

"We have strong bipartisan support, both from the Republican and Democratic parties. And of course, we have strong support from the American people," Foreign Minister Sybiha told reporters in Montreal, Canada when asked about the election results.