The White House on Tuesday asked Congress to approve $37.7 billion in new aid for Ukraine, which would bring total US spending on the war to about $105 billion.
According to The Hill, the request includes $21.7 billion in military aid for Ukraine and to replenish US military stockpiles that have been sent to the country.
A total of $14.5 billion in budgetary aid to directly fund the Ukrainian government is included, as Kyiv is expecting the US and its allies to pay its budget deficit for 2023.
The request also includes $626 million for the US Strategic Oil Reserve and for nuclear safety for Ukraine and $900 million for healthcare and other services for Ukrainians.
The request comes ahead of the swearing-in of the new Congress in January. Republicans are expected to hold the majority in the House once all midterm elections have been called, and Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has clinched the GOP nomination to be House speaker.
McCarthy raised concerns among Ukraine supporters when he said a Republican-controlled House wouldn’t write a “blank check” for Ukraine. While the majority of Republicans still support spending on the war in Ukraine, McCarthy’s comments may have prompted the White House request during the lame-duck period.
It’s possible Congress will increase the White House requests as media reports said lawmakers in both parties were looking to pass a Ukraine aid bill of about $50 billion before January.
I guess the Ukrainian parliament needs another pay raise.
A multi-billion dollar Ukraine aid bill will be approved. Every time the Russia bomb civilians target they just generate more anger in the US Congress. The aid will pass with no problems.
The US Congress is tamed and has been for quite some time. When weapons industries are spread evenly across congressional districts, representatives and senators vote in the own local best interests. Anger has little to do with the allocation of taxpayer funds except in cases where there are monies being allocated for social benefits.
As for your rather tired rhetoric, most recent Russian bombardment has been aimed at utilities, such as the electric grid, rail facilities, and other public utilities which support the NATO army personnel stationed in Ukraine.
Regardless of why Russian attack public utilities, it does not play well in the US. Now if you want to claim Ukraine support is because congressional district benefit from defense spending that fine with me. The bottom line is the US Congress will support Ukraine.
Bottom line, US Congress will obey it’s primary constituents in this latest disastrous adventure in regime change, because those primary constituents are connected to one of America’s largest industrial complexes.
The US House and Senate have been suborned by their greatest John, the MIC.
Obviously you approve of yet another weary exercise in asserting US dominance.
Having watched this ugly display for 60 years, I do not.
That’s the real difference between us.
I’m sure you do not like the US helping Ukraine. But I am also sure that 3/4 of Americans feel that Russia is the aggressor in this war and thus they support spending on Ukraine. And as I said, every time the news shows Russia damage to civilian targets or killing of civilians, that simply does not go over well in the US. Regardless of how you feel about the saturation, as it currently stands the US will support Ukraine.
It is the opposite way round. USA/NATO and the hatred/ sanctions against Russia led to the reaction from Russia. 8 years of waiting after the US overthrow of Uke govt surely shows Putin’s patience. You are at the other side of the globe.
Fact is support for Ukraine is declining as peop!e catch on to another MIC war scam.
WSJ: “American support for sending additional assistance to Ukraine has dropped from March, particularly among Republican voters, according to a recent Wall Street Journal (WSJ) poll.
According to the WSJ, the percentage of respondents who believe the Biden administration is doing too much to help Ukraine rose 24%, from a low of 6% in March to 30% now.
Percentage of Republicans who say we’re doing “too much” to support Ukraine:
March (WSJ): 6%
March (Pew): 9%
May (Pew): 17%
Sept. (Pew): 32%
Today (WSJ): 48
48% GOP thinks US spending is too much. Since there is an roughly an equal split in congress and most Democrats’ support Ukraine, that means that 75% support the current spending for Ukraine. And remember “too much” is not the same as not supporting something.
You don’t know how to do basic basic arithmetic. Can’t read. Don’t understand demographics and you think Democrats, Republicans and Independents only exist in Congress.
To wit, the poll was on the American people not Congress. You also don’t seem to understand trends. Gravy train for Ukraine will end.
The “ministry of truth” aka corporate media tells Americans who have the attention span of a jay bird what to think.
The sheeple in this country hate Russia because that is what the Media tells them to do. They have been taught or trained by our wonderful education system to just do what they are told. Never ask why. Never think about it.
Who on earth in Russia cares what the US thinks? The USA is the greatest danger to any form of peace and cooperation. Russia is next door to 404 and asked for neutrality from the Uke government, but NATO insists on conflict, so Russia fights to win.
“Regardless of why Russian attack public utilities, it does not play well in the US.”
Unless the US is doing it. I remember that photo from the sky showing Iraq as a large cesspool after we destroyed their infrastructure. USA! USA!
Russia may be destroying infrastructure now because it plans a serious offensive soon and does not want Ukraine and its western allies to be able to resupply the front. They have said the war would end in December. Ukraine is being driven into insanity with the slow methodical tortuous destruction and only words of “support” from the west and diabolical weapons with which to fight. As Mearsheimer said: Ukraine was led down the primrose path.
Key word: tired. And tiresome.
The bill will be approved because of millions in kick backs to the SOBs who approve it. Congressional votes have nothing to do with governing the US.
They need the story of Russian kill civilians for as a cover. Truth can come later. Every time without fail. Like those in Bucha. Yet to release names – of course because the victims are Russians. Or the ones in Kharkiv,
Or the last one in Poland. Of course it was Ukrainian anti-missile, as it is clear by now.
Lies and wars are synonimous. For as long as we know that “our” side lies too.
By the way — why is this war/intervention /special military operation any of US concern? Did it actually even affect Europe in any way? Fight over the disputed Soviet boundsries and population wishes is really not anyone’s concern. I do not want to hear about principles. Nobody, West in particular, cares about them. All that matters are peope in Ukraine. Zelenski could have conducted referendum, region by region to find out who wanted to live where, and saved lives. Instead, he decided that pro-Russian populstion had to be intimidated, annihilated, orvassimilated. Flash a red/black Nazi flag in front of Russia. And just wait for them to put foot down. As the ad goes, you asked for it— you got it.
Yeah… We can’t go a week without another TENS OF BILLIONS into the MIC war machine. That’s $37,000,000,000 that we are spending on killing people on Russia’s border rather than doing anything at home. Schools, roads, healthcare, heck, even build that stupid wall Trump wants – it’s all better spent than on war. Or even give me a tax break to help with this awful inflation.
Damn straight, Pal.
All the ills besetting this godforsaken country and our guvvmint prefers to spend our tax dollars on death.
How’s about we spend it on LIFE? Children in Somalia are dying by the thousands due to malnutrition.
Does Jackson have drinkable water yet? That story seems to have been buried.
Winter is coming and hundreds of thousands are homeless.
Insane inflation is causing citizens to choose between paying rent and eating.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the wealthy US were known for its benevolence instead of being a worldwide instigator of death?
I know…in my dreams.
Yeah, I see poverty all around the world and it makes me sick knowing that we’re spending billions to kill people, many of whom don’t even know that they are the enemy.
oops whatever happened to the “build back better” plan for america.
i think so far a total of one bridge has been rebuilt.
That’s one more than I expected.
Whatever hapoened to climate change/ global warming? Now that pipelines are cut – those eco-unfriendly things, we are shipping gas in giant bottles accross oceans and seas, burning a ridiculous of oil to fuel those ships— and spill some of it along the way, as all ships do.
A billion here and a billion there and soon you are talking some real money!
$105 billion for Ukraine while Americans sleep in the streets and our southern border is wide open. Can you identify the traitors yet?
Such discussion can happen only on SNL.
How much is the Dictator going to siphon off from the American Treasury (when the Treasury only contains IOUs.)
Isn’t this a little tone deaf just after the revelation that an unknown amount of the aid is laundered back to bribe politicians in the US.
Another 37 billion $$ to Ukraine? Ask all the Americans with their little virtue signaling Ukraine flags to send $110 each to support Ukraine. I think support would dry up quickly. 90 percent of them could not find Ukraine on a map.
Indeed. If Americans had to directly pay for these interventions, coups/regime changes, proxy wars, color revolutions and outright wars?…. This BS would end.
Just how bad is Zelensky’s coke habit??
Hmmm, that just might account for some of the “aid” we send 😉
It has been said for a long time that “cocaine is God’s way of telling you that you have too much money,” but cash flows like this suggest that there isn’t nearly enough cocaine.
Based on how brave he is in the face of his county’s problems, he must be lretty high indeed.
“White House Asks Congress for $37.7 Billion in New Ukraine Aid If approved, it would bring total US spending on the war in Ukraine to about $105 billion”
Why not just send a printing press, paper and ink to Zelensky and his Ukrainian criminals and skip the middleman.
If we did that, we couldn’t guarantee that many billions would come back to the US MIC.
Those billions never actually leave. It would be good to know how much actually gets transfered to Ukraine banks.
And how much goes to banks in Cyprus, and in the world money-laundering capital, London.
Compare and contrast:
https://www.crfb.org/sites/default/files/BidenFY22_Fig2.PNG
Un-be-f*cking-lievable 😐
It really is.
Biden said Russian’s withdrew from Falujah! God help us, Senile man surrounded by zealots revenging their ancient grievances.
He also said Putin attacked Russia.
I’m surprised anyone is still paying attention to that silly puppet.
Just this morning I commented on the following article in “these ‘TIMES’ they are a-changing” regarding the hyping for mor-war:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/15/opinion/trump-2024-announcement.html?campaign_id=0&emc=edit_cr_20221116&instance_id=0&nl=comments-notifications®i_id=135450&segment_id=0&user_id=a02c20a175a10e71aa341b83f3c9053d#commentsContainer&permid=121511617:121511617
Yes, as “these ‘TIMES’ they are a-changing”, progressively, but much too slowly says, with respect to your NYT TIMEly warning:
“If he, Emperor Trump, is still in the race when the first votes are cast in 2024, the election will once again be a referendum on America’s (duopoly party and EMPIRE controlled) democracy, because if our system of government is to survive, voters must choose leaders who accept and submit to the rule of law.”
IMHO, if faux-Emperor Trump is still ‘in the running’ in 2024, ‘we the American people’ and all ‘citizens of our small fragile world’, would need to employ some very blunt and serious double-sided protest signs which would also need to be based on ad-hoc focus-group testing and an accurate assessment of our socio-political-economic cancerous metastasizing condition:
“We’re #1”
In GINI of
Wealth
Inequality
and on the other side to recover any form of small ‘d’ democracy:
LOVE
Democratic
Socialism of
America
The attempted oil price cap & grain ship navigation are bigger issues. Believe the Al Jazeera reports of refugees not wanting to go back. The war has more censorship(lies!)and propaganda* than it did last month. Ukraine’s economic burden will rise & rise while other conflicts simmer (Myanmar & Armenia-Azerbijani, Palestinian/Settler-Israeli). World is getting more unstable.
*(listen to our lies not theirs)
Warmongers rushing money to their war before voters can stop them.
How about spending those billions on our crumbling bridges?
How about making stuff to improve people’s lives instead of bombs and stuff designed to kill?
Money laundry exchange FTX no longer open and viable-need to find another exchange for the kickbacks, last count $40 mil but certainly much more.
Graphic in Russian but self-explanatory:
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/7977299.html
Interesting that the graphic leaves out the similar amounts of money that went through FTX to Republicans.
Do not disagree!
If you have the details, please post. Bottom line, there really is no difference within the uniparty altho wapo today has an article detailing the extensive links with the dimos, parents, in laws et al with sam of ftx.
Gopers are just as corrupt if not more, just depends upon the links.
According to Politico, during 2022, he contributed $105,000 to conservative candidates and $35,972,000 to liberals. Additionally, he contributed to Protect Our Future PAC, which began as a Democratic political action committee. It launched with $10 million in funding, most of which came from Bankman-Fried.
Bankman-Fried contributed largely to Democratic candidates. The company’s CFO contributed largely to Republican candidates. It was tens of millions to both parties, and it was presumably to buy regulatory influence.
I’m not seeing reports of tens of millions to the repugs but at this point it really does not matter; the seven rinos got cash but I do not see any reports that it was tens of millions-in my mind, it was a democrat oriented money laundry operation but the uniparty repug wing is definitely involved. I take it you are disputing the Politico report I cited above.
You don’t cite a Politico report. You mention a Politico report without actually citing it, so there’s really no way I can dispute it.
Here, I’ll cite an article:
“FTX Co-CEO Ryan Salame donated heavily to right-leaning organizations, according to more data from Open Secrets. He contributed $12 million to American Dream Federal Action, a right-leaning group which spent on behalf of candidates such as victorious Republican Senate nominees Ted Budd and Katie Britt, of North Carolina and Alabama, respectively.
“Salame also contributed $2 million to the Congressional Leadership Fund and $2.5 million to the Senate Leadership Fund, which are the Republican equivalents of the House Majority PAC and Senate Majority PAC. The latter group, which is directed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), came under criticism following the midterms for arguably deprioritizing important swing-state races critical to Republicans.” — Here Are The Democrats And Republicans Who Received Campaign Cash Linked To Bankrupt Crypto Empire FTX, Daily Wire, 11/15/22
OK, some rinos got cash, a few others, rinos i do not consider repugs, just another dimo vote in a lot of votes starting with the odious mc connell:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/disgraced-ftx-founder-donated-six-rinos-voted-impeach-trump/
We may not disagree that sam was working the system on both sides. However, sam was seriously oriented to the dimo side but others in the “org,” if one can call it that, were sending other peoples’ money (OPM) to right wing causes.
Still waiting for all recipients of OPM from this corrupt org to send OPM back to the owners-may be a long wait.
Millions to the Republican Senate and House campaign committees. You know, the funders that get Republicans elected.
The purpose was presumably to buy influence.
If you think there are major essential differences between Republicans and Democrats, that thing you’re doing that you think is thinking isn’t.
I do find it strange that you’d consider Republicans who voted to impeach life-long Democrat Donald Trump “Republicans in Name Only.”