Why are they so intent on giving our money to a war that is going nowhere, that means little to US national security, and will see the US receive nothing in return?
Ukraine aid backers still see path for new aid
The stopgap spending bill that will be sent to President Joe Biden’s desk doesn’t contain new money for Ukraine or even transfer authority for aid. Yet backers of Kyiv’s defense against Moscow say it may come soon.
Some backers of Ukraine believe a bill allowing at least that transfer authority — which unlocks other buckets of U.S. cash for the war against Russia — could pass Congress as soon as [this] week, according to two people with knowledge of conversations between the House and Senate.
The lack of transfer authority is a glaring omission from the spending bill abruptly passed by the House earlier Saturday. Speaker Kevin McCarthy was open to putting it in the House’s bill, according to three people familiar with the negotiations, but negotiators were unable to finalize language to put into the legislation before it passed the lower chamber.
Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), a co-chair of the House’s Ukraine caucus, said she was “very uncomfortable” voting for a bill that didn’t contain Ukraine aid. (She ultimately backed the bill.)
She’s uncomfortable voting for a bill that funds the American people? I’m sure quite a few felt that way.
(Reuters) U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday pressed congressional Republicans to back a bill to provide more aid to Ukraine, saying he was “sick and tired” of the political brinkmanship that nearly led to a government shutdown. (snip)
Biden said Republicans had pledged to provide that aid through a separate vote.
“We cannot under any circumstances allow America’s support for Ukraine to be interrupted. I fully expect the speaker to keep his commitment to secure the passage and support needed to help Ukraine as they defend themselves against aggression and brutality,” he told reporters at the White House.
We fully expected a bill about inflation reduction to be about inflation reduction, not ‘climate change’ and non-related garbage. Expect Biden to yammer about funding Ukraine, rather than on the problems facing America, for at least the rest of the week.
‘We can’t do it alone’: Ukrainians react to lack of additional funding in US spending bill
The United States may have avoided a government shutdown on Saturday – but the lack of additional funding for Ukraine in the spending bill has left some residents in the war-torn nation nervous. (snip)
“These are internal American games. And Ukraine is a hostage to this discussion – this internal war,” Ukrainian serviceman Volodymyr Kostiak told CNN on Sunday, a national holiday marking Defenders Day to honor the country’s veterans and war dead.
“America’s strategic interests are so big that Ukraine is part of them,” he added. “And I think that the internal political struggle cannot affect the assistance to Ukraine that much. There will be some errors, but they will be insignificant.”
Why are you not on the front lines fighting? The photo at the article has him standing around far from the battlefield, looking all clean and pressed. All the photos of different people show them looking al nice and well fed, just wanting lots of sweet, sweet American cash.
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