Posted on 01/20/2023 5:29:15 AM PST by House Atreides
President Joe Biden’s Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, announced another $2.5 billion in military aid for Ukraine on Thursday and said the United States “will stand united with Ukraine for as long as it takes.”
The most recent aid package comes after Congress awarded $45 billion to Ukraine in the massive $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill that Biden signed into law last month, bringing the total amount of U.S. aid sent to Ukraine to over $110 billion.
Interestingly, the $45 billion Congress awarded was $8 billion more than the $37 billion that Biden’s administration requested.
“Pursuant to a delegation of authority from the President, I am authorizing our 30th drawdown of U.S. arms and equipment for Ukraine since August 2021,” Blinken said in a press release…
… Recently, Republican lawmakers Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) and Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) led a letter sent to the Biden administration demanding a “full crosscutting report” of all the “U.S. government-wide expenditures for Ukraine and ‘countries impacted by the situation in Ukraine’ since February 24, 2022.
“Taken together, the four Ukraine supplemental spending bills passed since the escalation of the Ukraine/Russia conflict in February of 2022 amount to arguably the fourth-largest discretionary appropriations bill,” the lawmakers wrote. “Further, multiple DOD Inspectors General advisories have raised questions about DOD’s budget execution practices in regards to these funds.”
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If we’re going to subsidize this war then we should at least send them the weapons they need. Joes playing to lose.
I thought Congress doled out money not Joes Secretary of State.
It’s a lost cause that will end NATO, so to that end, keep investing.
I’m sure that Foggy Bottom has a slush fund in their budget that can be easily “diverted” to just about anything they want. Weapons most likely are being called Humanitarian Aid.
The debt spending seemingly has no bounds. 31.5 trillion $ of debt. They just can’t stop themselves.
And these same clowns told us that we couldn't afford $5 billion for the southern border wall.
I guess Congress doled out money to Joe’s Secretary of State to distribute as he pleases.
A billion here and billion there and pretty soon you’re talking about real money.....attrib. Sen. Everette Dirksen (R) Illinois............
Joe and Co. are raiding the till, while they still can!
NATO is in the process of squeezing the life out of Mother Russia
Mother Russia is economically and militarily vastly inferior to the combined NATO effort implemented by the Ukrainians
If we just hand them cash, they will steal it. If we give them weapons, we have to send “advisors” to show them how to use them.
Question:
What country is Kherson in?
Too bad our own border wasn't on their “want” list.
The House needs to put a stop to this.
We have been, the Ukes “use” them up faster than they can be manufactured. Much of it “disappears” into thin air. There is always a limit to everything eventually.
Russia appears to be fine. The life is being squeezed out of us. You need to wake up.
we are well over the Ukraine is too big to fail...
mo money means mo involvement...
You parrot the Putin delusions of grandeur that have not been true for a very long time. The proof is now coming to the whole world
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