Posted on 02/18/2024 1:21:09 PM PST by hardspunned
About $60 billion in the bill would go to supporting Ukraine as it defends itself from the Russian invasion that began nearly two years ago. There's nearly $14 billion to allow Ukraine to rearm itself through the purchase of weapons and munitions and another nearly $15 billion for support services such as military training and intelligence sharing.
The support also includes nonmilitary assistance. About $8 billion would go to help Ukraine's government continue basic operations with a prohibition on money going toward pensions. And there's about $1.6 billion to help Ukraine's private sector.
About a third of the money allocated to supporting Ukraine actually will be spent replenishing the U.S. military with the weapons and equipment that are going to Kyiv. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has repeatedly emphasized that point, saying in a statement Tuesday that the money is about “reaffirming a commitment to rebuild and modernize our military, restore our credibility, and give the current Commander-in-Chief, as well as the next, more tools to secure our interests.”
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And the Speaker should attach legislation DEFUNDING the Dept of Education, HUD, Dept of Energy, EPA, and at least the State Dept too, for refusing to allow Congress to see documents they asked for.
This is designed to be one last big payoff
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Exactly…..Sanctions failed, arms and ammo shipments failed, Western Wunderweapons failed, supporting the Ukie dog catcher’s and pension, paying their Congressman salaries failed, tons of $$$ on fake news failed, ….Ukraine has proven to be one.huge.failure.for.good.reason: Corruption.
Not one more taxpayers dime.
All that money will stay within the Beltway.
“...$14 billion to allow Ukraine to rearm itself through the purchase of weapons and munitions...”
The Ukes will purchase weapons and munitions from other countries (like China, Iran and North Korea). So as usual, other countries will get the windfall from the $14 billion that the USA treasury has to borrow in order to give to Ukraine. What a total scam! /spit
THE BIGGEST LAUGH I’VE HAD ALL DAY:
McConnell says ....gag.....about a third of the tax dollars allocated to Ukraine actually will be spent .....
lollololololololol.....”replenishing the U.S. military” with the weapons and equipment that are going to Kyiv. ......
LOLLOLOLOLOLOLOL......”the money is about “reaffirming a commitment to rebuild and modernize our military, restore our credibility, and give the current Commander-in-Chief, as well as the next, more tools to secure our interests.”
Let the EEeeeee-Yewwwwwwwwww fund it for a while.
They are the locals.
It’s in their ‘hood.
another huge payoff to the guys blackmailing Joe...
If Ukraine had spent the money instead on bullets etc with all the BILLIONS we have sent them they would have wiped Russia off the face of the earth by now...
What’s Inside the Senate’s $95 Billion Bill to Aid Ukraine and Israel and Counter China? I am guessing $93 Billion to Biden and his cronies and the remaining $2 Billion left over for a propaganda campaign to tell us how wonderful our government is.
someone said last night on FOX that we were sending the Ukraine our old weapons etc and buying new for ourselves with the money in the bill...
Ah no ourreserves for ourselves is mostly depleted...
We couldnt win an all-out war...
Were worse off than the Ukraine pretends to be...
Looks like Soros gets a piece of this, too. Read on.
The AMAZING CONNECTION between, Ukraine, Israel, US tax dollars and George Soros: Suggests laundered US tax dollars are an income source for Soros’ financing leftist tripe in the US govt.
Please urge your federal elected officials to take action by sending an email below or picking up the phone to call using the script at the end of this form. Your advocacy will help ensure Congress passes the Supplemental Budget Request, which includes the following:
<><>$14.3 Billion in Emergency assistance to Israel: This emergency assistance will bolster Israel’s ability to defend herself and replenish vital defense systems, including the Iron Dome and David’s Sling missile defense programs.
<><>Increased Funding for FEMA’s Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP): Jewish communities are in a state of elevated readiness and have already been forced to increase their security measure. FEMA’s Nonprofit “Security Grant Program” helps ensure the safety and security of Jewish and other faith-based community institutions. The increased funding included in Biden’s Supplemental Budget Request will help bolster our Jewish community’s capacity to protect itself at this challenging time.
<><>$61.4 Billion in Emergency Assistance to Ukraine: The J Street Lobby stands in solidarity with Ukraine and supports efforts to strengthen its democracy in the face of aggression. This funding will aid Ukraine’s efforts to safeguard its democracy and protect its citizens. Jewish Federations are actively engaged in supporting the Ukrainian people—including by resettling over 2,600 displaced Ukrainians across the United States—and we seek continued U.S. support for these critical efforts.
J Street believes that maintaining a strong, vibrant US-Israel relationship is a core American interest. We want to see a secure, thriving Israel that is a healthy democracy, a national home for the Jewish people and a state for all its citizens that embodies the shared values that have long formed the heart of the special relationship between our two countries. We believe that American diplomatic leadership has an important role to play in helping to make this vision a reality, as does cooperation in (financing) Israel’s security, economic, technological, academic and civil society spheres.
In previous statements and on its web site J Street had seemed to deny receiving support from foreign interests and from Soros.
Jeremy Ben-Ami apologized for earlier “misleading” statements regarding funding from Soros. Ben-Ami also clarified that donors to 501(c)(4) organizations are promised confidentiality by law and challenged critics to make public the contributions from opposing organizations.
Are US taxpayers being scammed by foreign aid “good cop, bad cop” money grabs?
George Soros is the spendthrift billionaire with an endless supply of money to screw up American politics. Now, new revelations suggest Soros appears to be doing the “good cop, bad cop” routine (to get his hands on US foreign aid tax dollars?).
Soros has expressed outright hostility to Israel and Zionism time and time again. It’s no secret. So to discover Soros, is, in fact, one of the largest donors to one of the Israeli lobbies-—— the J Street lobby-—— is a revelation.
J Street has suggested, time and time again, that Soros was not an Israel supporter. But Eli Lake was quoted in the Atlantic WRT Soros and his family giving J Street $750,000 to J Street over a one year period.
The scandal grows from a decision by Jeremy Ben-Ami, founder and president of J Street, to cover-up, over a long period of time, something he knew to be true: That George Soros, the billionaire moneyman and self-avowed dissident of Israel, provided the Israeli J Street Lobby with almost $750,000 in funding.
James Besser, at The New York Jewish Week, frames the impact of this cover-up in stark and simple terms: “There’s no way this isn’t going to make the US politicians supported by J Street and those who may be considering accepting its endorsement incredibly nervous. Instead of providing protection for the politicians they supported, J Street essentially hung them out to dry by lying about their connection to the controversial moneyman Soros.”
An Atlantic reporter, Chris Good, was one of the journalists lied to by J Street; he ripped the organization a new one once he learned he was the target of J Street’s disinformation campaign.
News of the Soros J Street donation, first brought to light by Eli Lake, an in-demand ace reporter, was accompanied by disclosures about a larger, and stranger, donation, by a resident of Hong Kong. J Street supporters on Capitol Hill are worried that the organization is using foreign money to provide money to American political candidates, and encouraging foreigners to support Israeli funding in US legislation.
The other day it was posted that the entire budget for the Marine Corps is 52 billion.
Ukraine goes woke
Now we go broke
Gog woke usa
MaGog woke nato
Rev 13
Ps
Isn’t diversity gay - wonderful
And $950 million back to ‘the Big Guys’ (0’Biden and their Senate Frat Bros.)
“another huge payoff to the guys blackmailing Joe...”
I think not just Joe.
Biden and the Democrats are OK with arming foreign countries but grabbing guns from Americans is an obsession w/ them. The same “Congress” that gleefully tramples 2A rights, is hell bent on supplying weapons to foreign countries. ComputerGuy wrote: the entire budget for the US Marine Corps is $52 billion.
Not content w/ the mega billions already in his pocket, Zelensky now says
he wants US tax dollars to Ukraine “according to the Israeli model”......here’s what he means:
Congressional Research Service
US Foreign aid to Israel
60 page detailed report
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/RL/RL33222/44
The concerned Israeli lobby made sure Congress is required by law to ensure that U.S. military aid in the Middle East region doesn’t damage Israel’s military superiority over its neighbors. That requirement enjoys broad bipartisan support and has served as a benchmark for ensuring Israel receives robust U.S. support.
Biden keeps gaslighting Americans about the “need” for
American foreign aid tax dollars to Ukraine and Israel.
Here’s why they DONT need it:
About $113.1 billion in tax dollars were authorized in 2022 for Ukraine, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Most of it–about $67.1 billion–was defense-related. The other $46 billion included:
<><>$26.9 billion for economic support;
<><>$7.9 billion for international disaster assistance;
<><>$6.6 billion in assistance for refugees;
<><>$1.5 billion for assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia;
<><>plus $3.1 billion for other non-defense spending.
US tax dollars helped Ukraine
<><>pay the salaries of 618,000 educators, 517,000 health workers, and 56,500 first responders
<><>helped sustain critical healthcare services,
<><>helped meet pension responsibilities for 9.8 million people,
<><>assisted 1.3 million internally displaced persons,
<><>provided housing assistance to 4.1 million people,
<><>provided social assistance to 240,000 low-income families
<><>helped subsidize 480,000 persons with disabilities,
<><>bought supplies for farmers,
<><>financed finding markets for small business.
Backstory: Since 1973, Israel has received more than $120 billion US tax
dollars in MILITARY assistance alone, including “three special aid” packages.
<><>billions for signing the Israel-Egypt peace treaty
<><>billions for Israel’s withdrawal from the Sinai.
<><>billions for redeployment of Israeli forces
<><>rebuilding Israeli air bases in the Negev cost $5 billion.
Besides weaponry, Israel also receives economic and humanitarian foreign aid, which supports broad economic development and sociopolitical stability and can include non-military support related to the country’s pressing security needs.
Military aid from US taxpayers has blanketed Israel over the years. They have more than enough resources, now, to nail Hamas and Hezbollah. Wealthy Israel has very low debt, and actually had a budget surplus this year, while the US is $33 trillion in debt, a debt which future generations are saddled with.
It should be voted on secretly for each country. Israel aid should come out 9f the UN. I would support the aid to Tiwain,as China attacked America with covid.
How about a complete accounting of this boondogle. Billions to support ngos that aid border jumpers. Aid for every democrap pet project.
Most of the public is done with stupid when it comes to corruption in DC.
NO NO Republipukes. NO more.
Alliances should also be made on a Country by Country basis.
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