Report: Biden Planning to Ask Congress for $13 Billion for Ukraine
We’ve given Ukraine $123 billion since last year.
Reports indicate the Biden administration will ask Congress for $20 billion in aid for numerous countries.
$13 billion is for Ukraine.
I bet it goes through even though more and more people have grown exhausted over all the money poured into Ukraine, especially since no one is keeping track of how anyone is spending the money:
Lawmakers in both parties have clamored for more Ukraine aid, determined to honor a U.S. commitment to helping the country in its grueling war against Russian aggression that looks likely to continue throughout the rest of the year. But staunch conservatives in both chambers, particularly in the House, are vehemently opposed to giving Ukraine another dime without a fuller accounting of how the $43 billion in assistance already allocated to the country has been spent.
Both Ukraine aid and disaster relief enjoy bipartisan support, however, and the funds could help shore up backing for a stopgap spending bill that averts a government shutdown in October.
Passing a short-term funding patch with emergency cash attached still presents a number of politically tricky hurdles for Congress to clear, given GOP hardliners have already signaled they would reject a stopgap that fails to enact steep spending cuts. Ukraine aid is likely to further alienate that group.
I forgot we have a Ukraine Caucus:
In an interview Wednesday, Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.), a senior appropriator and co-chair of the Ukraine Caucus, said he wanted enough aid to last the allied country an entire year “to send a message to [Vladimir] Putin, and our allies and Ukraine that we’re in this for the long haul.” He predicted that moderate Republicans and Democrats will get the funding over the finish line.
“It’s calculus; there are multiple variables that are intertwined and it comes at a difficult time,” he said. “The guys I talk to in the Republican party, and I’m an appropriator, say, ‘Oh no, we’re going to get this done.’ That’s what gives me hope.”
The money will also set Kyiv up for months of continued military operations, as critical supplies of artillery ammunition and other supplies run low due to heavy fighting and stiff Russian resistance along hundreds of miles of front lines.
We’ve sent Ukraine $123 billion since last year.
By the way, the Pentagon still has $6.2 billion in an account specifically for Ukraine. That will likely run out by the fall because we cannot stop sending the country our money.
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The answer had better be “Not no but hell no”. Not until we have a FULL accounting of where the other billions went.
But who knows with McCarthy in the Speaker’s chair.
It is almost as if Biden doesn’t want anyone in Ukraine but himself.
Wonder why?
Billion dollar bribes don’t go as far as they used to.
Just say no.
Zelensky needs to buy one of Hunter’s paintings, or perhaps he already has.
Sure should be clear enough for the evil-minded,
https://seanheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/no.jpg
Our enemy is not in Moscow. He’s in the white house.
Minus 10% for the Big Guy, of course.
Then Hunter’s cut, Zelensky’s cut, various military “leaders”” cuts, the oligarch fees–whatever is left over doesn’t go very far..
then next month we’ll have to do it all over again.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/08/09/us-aid-to-ukraine-amounts-to-900-per-american-household-economist-says/
US Aid to Ukraine Amounts to $900 Per American Household, Economist Says
If Biden hadn’t been so quick to funnel that billion dollar ransom payment to Iran he might have been able to redirect some illicit pallets of cash to Ukraine. Maybe next time.
AOC says this is great for lowering inflation because the money will be over in the Ukraine , making the money left here more valuable.
What a piker. Why 13 billion? Why not 130 billion or 13 trillion? Cheapskate Joe — it’s not even his money. SAD!
Why not 100,000 more American military folks over there? As “advisors” of course!
Hey peckerhead, who is this “we” you’re referring to?
He means the grifter Congress critters on both sides of the aisle. Ukraine is a rare moment of agreement with the neocon war pigs locked arm in arm with the weirdo lefties who view Russia, Russia, Russia as an existential threat b/c orange man bad.
Add in the Defense Industry + all the money sloshing around for payola and graft. Then add in opportunities for large corporations to exploit this for present day profits and the very lucrative longer term profits of rebuilding Ukraine.
Not to mention this keeps the EU bogged down and with Russian energy mostly cut off and the huge mal investment into unreliable ‘green’ energy the industrial base of the EU is rapidly declining due to energy shortage. Don’t forget the profits on commodities trade as well.
All these things help create additional profits for Wall St and large corporations who then have more $ to send to the politicians who backed the policies to create the conditions they exploit.
$123 billion would help a lot of veterans.
But screw them. Zelensky needs another villa somewhere.
perhaps spend 1/10 of that to stop the chinese invasion of Fentanal via the cartels.