Posted on 03/08/2022 3:46:33 PM PST by Libloather
WASHINGTON (AP) - A U.S. aid package for Ukraine and its Eastern European allies grew to around $14 billion on Tuesday as lawmakers put finishing touches on a $1.5 trillion government-wide spending bill that leaders hope Congress will enact by week's end.
Democrats and Republicans rallied solidly behind the Ukraine aid, with Russia's attack devastating parts of the country and prompting Europe's worst refugee crisis since World War II. Negotiators said the package of military, humanitarian and economic aid to the region had grown close to $14 billion, up from $12 billion just Monday and President Joe Biden's $10 billion request last week.
“We’re going to support them against tyranny, oppression, violent acts of subjugation," Biden said at the White House.
The bipartisan rallying behind the Ukraine aid package was just one manifestation of Congress' eagerness to help that country, but not all of it has been harmonious.
Republicans accused Biden of moving too slowly to help Ukraine and NATO nations assisting it, and to impose sanctions against Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin. Democrats say time was needed to bring along European allies that rely heavily on Russian energy sources. And a bipartisan push to ban Russian oil imports had grown perhaps unstoppable before Biden announced Tuesday that he would do that on his own.
By dinner time Tuesday, lawmakers had still not released the overall bill, which would finance federal agencies this year and include the Ukraine aid. But details of the sweeping bill were beginning to emerge and its passage, probably in coming days, was not in doubt.
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To be passed around amongst the children of the law makers.
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This doesn’t even count the money going thru all the alphabet agencies to support different parts of Ukraine.
The deep state is murky and full of contracts.
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When was the last bit of funding that didn’t need to be passed quickly? Oh yea, the wall
They are spending money as if they know the dollar will be worth much less in the not too distant future. This is by far the most destructive presidency I’ve seen in my lifetime. Somehow I don’t think we will survive 3 more years of it.
That aid will end up in Biden’s, Clinton’s pockets their last GRIFT off of Ukraine!! These people MAKE ME SICK!!
It’s not like DC is part of the US anyway.
Well, damn. It isn’t dead bodies, or beheadings, so I am guessing it is Twitter protecting the Nazis, so people won’t see the hundreds of pictures of how pervasive the Nazi Culture is in Ukraine. Schools, churches, batallions, celebrations, town festivals.
Money laundering Bill.
But never a penny for Trump’s wall to stop invasion of the USA
any chance someone who has a Twitter account copies and paste the pics on FR?
Launder through a couple of NGOs.
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It looks like this is in addition to the first monies, and the $10B
They spoke of it like it’s separate, unless things changed.
The $1.5 Trillion is littered with stuff in reaction to Ukraine.
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Ukraine continues to be a US taxpayer funded ATM for corrupt DC Pol’s kids.
Why isn’t EUROPE paying ALL of this??
The problem with that is there are hundreds of pictures. It would take forever..
fair enough. thanks for replying anyway. it used to be possible to see twitter threads without signing up, but not any more.
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