Posted on 01/27/2025 6:56:50 PM PST by ransomnote
American officials at the State Department are striving to maintain aid to Ukraine despite the announcement of a freeze on foreign aid by the new Secretary of State, reports the "Financial Times." It remains unclear what impact this decision will have.
High-ranking diplomats in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs have appealed to Secretary of State Marco Rubio to exclude support for Ukraine from the memorandum suspending foreign aid for 90 days, issued by him on Friday. Rubio has already made exceptions for Israel and Egypt, as well as emergency food programs, but Ukraine was not included.
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The Ukrainian edition of Voice of America reported that the FMF program is subject to suspension, but the main military support channels, such as the Presidential Drawdown Authority (transfer of equipment from U.S. resources) and the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (purchase of equipment for Ukraine from arms manufacturers), have not been affected.
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The US is the bulk of overall funding to Ukraine - I saw reporting saying that in early January, European nations were scrambling to provide additional support, as if they knew Trump would frown on current funding levels to Ukraine.
Who signs the checks and who has authority to do this????
The United States is the largest single-country donor of humanitarian assistance to Ukraine. Individuals seeking to leave Ukraine can find information from UNHCR on where to go for help. The State Department has partnered with GoFundMe.org to address the humanitarian needs of the people affected by Russia’s attack against Ukraine.
https://www.state.gov/united-with-ukraine
When anyone reads ‘State Department’ it needs to translate to ‘CIA’.
CIA must be destroyed and replaced.
And the Eff Bee Eye. Even less reason for them to exist.
maybe rev mommy can get out her checkbook
I frown with Trump about continued aid to Ukraine.
Actually, I spew @#%E words.
More people to go on leave, go under investigation, or be fired. How many of these were getting kickbacks from Ukraine?
Fire their asses if they can’t obey orders.
Absolutely not.
Ukraine needs to pay us back BILLIONS of dollars.
Period.
There comes a time when you just need to cut off a wasteful teen’s credit card cause he is buying all the booze for his friends. Now is that time...
Drain the Fog from the Bottom....
The eurotards were happy taking advantage of the US.
We paid the bulk of Nato, the UN, and the usury of Ukraine.
WE funded pensions and border security for Ukraine while veterans were shafted and our own border was ignored.
If this article is more than 12 hours old, it’s already be superseded by Rubio sending 58 or so top-level State Department types to the Rubber Room, so they’re now NPCs on Ukraine and everything else.
OUTSTANDING MOVE!
NPC?
“NPC?”
Non-Participating Character. Something that your grandchildren would know! (I had to look it up)
We tried, but came up empty.
Thank you!
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