State Department Stops Funding to Rebuild Ukraine Power Grid
NBC News reported that the State Department stopped a USAID program that sent money to Ukraine to help rebuild its power grid earlier this week:
Power outages have been applied overnight in some regions of Ukraine due to the attacks on energy facilities. The country’s systems have sustained near-constant impact throughout the course of the three-year war.“It significantly undercuts this administration’s abilities to negotiate on the ceasefire, and it’d signal to Russia that we don’t care about Ukraine or our past investments,” one USAID official involved in the Ukraine mission told NBC News.The official continued: “Russia is fighting a two-pronged war in Ukraine: A military one but also an economic one. They’re trying to crush the economy, but USAID has played a central role in helping it be resilient, [including] shoring up the energy grid…We’ve provided vast amount of support to the Ukrainian government to avoid a macro economic crisis.”
USAID funded the project. However, President Donald Trump’s administration has dismantled it after finding so much waste and fraud within the agency.
It’s really simple. Don’t waste your resources. Don’t commit fraud. The government is to the point where it needs to be burned down and rebuilt.
The U.S. had 64 employees and contractors in Ukraine. Now it only has eight.
Maybe that’s another reason why Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tried to be all time in the Oval Office today with Trump and JD Vance.
The money is stopping. We have sent over $200 billion to Ukraine since 2022. We don’t even know where most of that money is going. Zelensky even said that the country hasn’t received all of that money.
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