International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva speaks during the 2022 annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group, Oct. 14, 2022, in Washington. A provision in the recently signed defense budget mandates that the U.S. work to ease Ukraine’s debt burden at the IMF, which could create tensions at the world’s lender-of-last-resort over one of the fund’s biggest borrowers. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
