Posted on 10/12/2023 11:08:01 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The Biden administration reportedly seeks to tie Israeli aid with more Ukrainian support, reviving hope among establishment lawmakers that Ukraine could receive more taxpayer funds than the previously earmarked $113 billion.
The hope of tying the aid together unexpectedly declined Wednesday after key lawmakers signaled opposition to the combined spending packages.
“I support both, but I think it’d be a mistake to bundle the two,” Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) told Politico on Wednesday. “But it sounds like the administration wants to put the two together. I think that’d be a mistake.”
In turn, Biden administration officials appear to be sweetening the request. They “privately” told some lawmakers on Wednesday that the administration is working on a supplemental funding request for congressional approval that links additional funding for two more nations, Taiwan and the United States, NBC News reported
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Gross political opportunism at its worst…
Israel is capable of leveling Gaza with the billions we already gave them and the Ukraine war needs to end.
GIBS-ME-DAT-MONEY raises its ugly head to take advantage of the horror in Israel to extort more money from the American taxpayers.
It’s not just him, it’s all these DC people: can you ever just play things straight, without all the tricks and games?
Honestly, these people
the ukraine is a failed democratic party enterprise.
no money, no how!
Israel is not in the pocket of either party, and needs money.
Zelensky who?
That’s what this is all about. Bidenskyyyyy needs his ass impeached.
I propose that we trade that miserable POS for our refugees with the recommendation that they take out all their hate actions on him since he most thoroughly deserves it.
Let’s go Brandon.
Typical, everything devolves to spending and political maneuvering and agenda bloat. Never let a crisis go to waster, eh, Joe?
lib electrodes go on alert
so high
it blocks out all Truth - reality
zombiechuck - slash level
I’d say it was a failed Uniparty project. Goldman Sachs and Vanguard controls farmland in Ukraine. Halliburton owns all the oil rights east of the Dnieper river. Somebody owns the biowarfare labs, who?
$33 trillion in debt with no chance of ever repaying it.
A message to the idiot Rep. Don Bacon, the USA is flat broke. It is on the verge of collapse. America is Haiti.
How about the finger it’s the only thing he understands.
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