Pentagon: Congress must pass next Ukraine aid by Thursday to avoid interruptions

The hill ^ | 05/13/2022 | Ellen Mitchell

[ChicagoConservative27]

Congress must pass a proposed $40 billion Ukraine supplemental aid package by Thursday to avoid an interruption of U.S. weapons shipments to the embattled country, the Pentagon’s top spokesperson said Friday.

“May 19 is the day we really — without additional authorities — we begin to not have the ability to send new stuff in,” press secretary John Kirby told reporters. “It’ll start impacting our ability to provide aid uninterrupted.”

[ChicagoConservative27]

40 billion more on top of the other 40 billion?? By next Thursday? WTF is going on here

[Paladin2]

Where is Europe and our NATO partners?

How much are they kicking in?

[dsrtsage]

Protect the money laundromat and politician childrens employment center at all costs

[Paladin2]

Millie needs more blush?

[Nifster]

Just NO

[BenLurkin]

This thing stinks worse and worse all the time.

[oldasrocks]

Why are we the world piggy bank? if anything give them the Russian money we have frozen

[packagingguy]

Funny, when did the military start ordering the civilian branches of government around?

[OKSooner]

Let the uh, Germans and Poles, et al step up. The Limeys and the Frogs too.

$15B each and everyone's happy for another month.

[OKSooner]

God bless Rand Paul for holding it up, even briefly. I heard Hagerty (TN) was gonna oppose it too.

[Brian Griffin]

Has Ukraine used up its foreign reserves?

[BradyLS]

Yeah, that’s how it works. /s

But what do I know? It probably does most of the time!

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

I’m all for killing commies but cmon. Let some other country pony up and get the next check

[kiryandil]

Protect the money laundromat and politician childrens employment center at all costs

[AnthonySoprano]

[Always A Marine]

I’m all for killing commies but cmon. Let some other country pony up and get the next check

Russia rejected the Marxist progressive income tax back in 2001 when it instituted a 13% flat income tax. We are the commies now.

[griswold3]

Ukraine may miss a scheduled Sovereign Debt interest payment to Wall Street Hedge Fund? Inquiring minds want to know!

[OHPatriot]

Gotta keep the kickbacks on schedule. Retired generals need their bonuses from defense contractors.

[Brian Griffin]

I read in the Guardian that the EU is kicking in 500 million Euros - about 550 million dollars.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/13/russia-ukraine-war-what-we-know-on-day-79-of-the-invasion

[Captain Beyond]

They are on that aid to Ukraine like Hunter on a pile of parmesan on top of the carpet but crime, inflation, energy shortage, skyrocketing prices on everything, Baby Formula shortage, etc... they don’t even notice.