Posted on 10/20/2023 7:53:02 PM PDT by Nextrush
A massive 1.7 trillion-dollar US budget deficit for the fiscal year...
A New York judge fining President Trump five thousand US dollars...
An Iraqi Shia militia says that a US base in Kurdistan was attacked by two drones...
US politics new polls regarding the 2024 presidential contest showing President Trump winning...
"Unacceptable" Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov reacting to Joe Biden's comments linking the actions of Hamas to the policies of Russian President Vladimir Putin...
The massive extra spending package proposed following Joe Biden's speech last night totals 106 billion...
A Chinese container ship is the focus of a Finnish investigation into damage to a natural gas pipeline...
Retaliation from China for those new US computer chip sanctions announced earlier this week...
Politics in Washington today a third vote...Tonight in Washington the floodgates wide open with nine members...
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman says he is "pained" to see violence in Gaza...
North Korea threatening the US with a pre-emptive nuclear strike over...
North Korean ruler Kim Jong-Un talking about a "forward-looking" relationship with Russia...
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British politics the opposition Labor Party taking two seats from the Conservative Party...
Israel striking Hezbollah targets in Lebanon tonight...
Hamas announced the release of two Americans held in Gaza...
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41 Canadian diplomats forced out of India...
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The Chinese are trashing companies like Vmware right now.
It’s sad that so many American politicians were too stupid or too greedy the last few decades to understand that their actions that moved American jobs offshore would come back to devastate millions of Americans.
Communists always said that we would sell them the rope they would hang us with.
Army private who ran to North Korea charged with desertion
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In total, about $113.1 billion in funding for Ukraine was authorized in 2022, according to an analysis by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Most of that – about $67.1 billion – was for defense-related spending, the CRFB said. The other $46 billion included $26.9 billion for an economic support fund; $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 another $3.1 billion for other nondefense spending.
The U.S. Agency for International Development has been coordinating with the Treasury Department to distribute authorized economic aid to Ukraine in tranches. In a report published on Feb. 17, USAID said it had so far provided $13 billion in “direct budget support” to the government of Ukraine, or “GoU” for short.
“This funding has helped the Ukraine pay the salaries of 618,000 educators, 517,000 health workers, and 56,500 first responders,” the report says. “It has also helped them to sustain critical healthcare services, meet its pension responsibilities for 9.8 million people, assist 1.3 million internally displaced persons, provide housing assistance to 4.1 million people, and provide social assistance to 240,000 low-income families and 480,000 persons with disabilities.”
That report did not say how much was spent on pensions, but a USAID spokesperson sent us another USAID report to Congress that indicated $4 billion of budget support for Ukraine was spent on pensions as of Nov. 30, 2022.
The bottom line: While the video of Biden talking about providing funding to pay Ukrainian pensioners may have caught some by surprise, the fact is that Biden made those comments BEFORE Congress approved the money months ago on a bipartisan basis.
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Update, Feb. 23, 20243: After we published this story, a USAID spokesperson responded to our request for more information. We updated this story to include the amount spent on pensions
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