Posted on 03/09/2022 6:04:36 AM PST by jacknhoo
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional leaders reached a bipartisan deal early Wednesday providing $13.6 billion to help Ukraine and European allies plus billions more to battle the pandemic as part of an overdue $1.5 trillion measure financing federal agencies for the rest of this year.
Though a tiny fraction of the massive bill, the money countering a Russian blitzkrieg that’s devastated parts of Ukraine and prompted Europe’s worst refugee crisis since World War II ensured the measure would pass with robust bipartisan support. President Joe Biden requested $10 billion for military, humanitarian and economic aid last week, and Democratic and Republican backing was so staunch that the figure grew to $12 billion Monday and $13.6 billion just a day later.
“We’re going to support them against tyranny, oppression, violent acts of subjugation,” Biden said at the White House.
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How out-of-touch can this Chicom be?
That’s $150 billion for the Big Guy.
He is saving our world. It’s worth it. Besides the brokerage fees through Schwab - Klaus and his Davos op - must be piling up.
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Ukraine was all about breaking the 48 vote limit in the Senate.
Money Spigot on, DoD Spending orgy.
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Why isn’t Europe paying this??
A minuscule down payment on the trillions you, I, our children and grandchildren will be paying in this new generational European arms race our regime has just started. Of course, we might just get away on the cheap and use everyone’s handy nukes to blow us all up before we waste too much money here.
Just Peeing more dollars into the wind.
I want to know two things right now:
What is it with these bio labs in Ukraine.
Where is the Gremlin Fraudchi?
Put these two together and we have a winner.
Next up, the corruptocrats in DC can begin a transfer to a digital dollar. Wait for it: to ensure that all illegal drug deals are controlled.
why are we still providing funds for Covid relief? Why are we giving money to other countries for Covid? WTF do we still have vaccine mandates for health care workers? Will there be reparations for those fired because of these stupid mandates?
A bit of a win for GOP here:
“For Democrats, it provides $730 billion for domestic programs, 6.7% more than last year, the biggest boost in four years. Republicans won $782 billion for defense, 5.6% over last year’s levels.
In contrast, Biden’s 2022 budget last spring proposed a 16% increase for domestic programs and less than 2% more for defense — numbers that were doomed from the start thanks to Democrats’ slender congressional majorities.”
Good to add to defense, but they should have added money for the border wall and incentives to get drilling going again.
Except, Poland is NOT sending Mig-29's to Ukraine. Poland offered to send them to the US (in Europe), to which the DOD declined.
But, don't let that stop you from spending another $1.5T in fiat FED Rothschild-banksters Central-banksters currency. FED has to come crashing down anyways.
Why isn’t Europe paying this??
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Europe gets rewarded for NOT spending money!
The U.S. gives Egypt $1.3 billion in military aid annually.
Europe is paying this long over due bill.
Germany is going to be spending the better part of 2.5% of their GDP for decades because the fear of the russians is back in everyone under 50 years old. Most europeans are late to the true political status of the EU and NATO at this point. They will dust off old military parks and moderize with the bones of Soviet Spending.
What they dont know is the americans public attitude has hit US leaders and diplomats on a generational level. Big brother USA will no longer drive the boat if the occupants in the back just bitch about the ride. We have 8 highly mobile air bases at sea, have enough power under the oceans that what happens in the EU for the next decade isn’t that much of a challenge to our status. Chinas or Russian navy is a non threat.
Poland and the French and the Norway, Sweden and Finland will set the tone, the germans will be dragged along. All the rest of the EU and NATO partners lack the pull to get anything done. Germans are not barrier anymore, they are a speedbump on the NATO mission.
China’s role is to hold Russia beer, whatever way this ends they see political advantage. One thing that must have their leadership concerned, is a underfunded motivated defender can hold off Russia. Taiwan has been dedicated to stopping the rest of china in its tracks for 70 years and they lack no funding, did not have to clean up after the russians, and have allies who truly speak softer than the EU.
Well that should help American workers with inflation../s
Why? Even if the Ukraine wins, no amount of money is going to fix the Putin problem or the Biden problem.
Putting Hunter Biden and Devon Archer on the board of Burisma at $80K/month was the best investment Ukraine ever made.
You mean a win for GOP lobbyists and the Military-Industrial Complex, who we are insanely funding at record levels, despite no fake "war on terror" and no wars in Iraq or Afghanistan.
22 trillion in debt and McConnell increases spending? He should be in jail not in Congress. Any R that votes for this deserves to be thrown out office.
“you mean a win for GOP lobbyists and the Military-Industrial Complex”
Putin has single handedly ended the low military spending environment since the end of the Cold War.
The Peace Dividend is dead.
The brazenness of Russia and the increasing threat of a much more lethal China will see military increases across NATO and in the US.
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