A group of House Republicans introduced a bill Thursday to audit the funds that Congress has approved to spend on the war in Ukraine.
The effort is being led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and supported by a group of Republicans that have been critical of US aid to Ukraine. The resolution’s cosponsors include Reps. Thomas Massie (KY), Matt Gaetz (FL), Barry Moore (AL), Andrew Clyde (GA), and Cory Mills, a representative-elect from Florida.
According to The Hill, Greene introduced the bill as a privileged resolution, meaning it will be sent to the relevant committee, which will have 14 business days to either reject the legislation or approve it for a vote on the House floor.
If the bill is not discussed by the committee within 14 days, Greene has the option to force a House vote. Greene said she’s prepared to reintroduce the bill in the next Congress when Republicans have a majority in the House.
“I’ll introduce this resolution again, but I’ll also be calling for a full audit. We voted ‘no’ to send money over there, but we’re also going to audit what’s happening in Ukraine,” Greene said.
While most Republicans still support spending on the war in Ukraine, many have come out in favor of increasing oversight of the aid. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who is expected to be the speaker in the next Congress, has said a Republican-controlled House wouldn’t send a “blank check” to Ukraine.
McCarthy later downplayed his comments and said the lack of oversight was the issue, and other Republican leaders insisted they would keep arming Ukraine. But McCarthy’s comments were still enough to prompt a push to approve a massive new Ukraine aid package before the next Congress is sworn in, and the White House has asked for $37.7 billion.
If the new aid package is approved, it will bring total US spending on a proxy war on Russia’s border to about $105 billion. If it’s spent at the rate of other aid packages, the White House will likely be looking for more come spring.
America has no vested interest in Ukraine. Just another attempt to start a forever war to further enrich the AMIC and the politicians recieving grift for keeping it going.
“America has no vested interest in Ukraine. Just another attempt to start a forever war to further enrich the AMIC.”
True – but – as w/Russiagate – I’d argue the Democratic war party is also weaponizing a ‘foreign policy’ issue for domestic political gain – for both controlling its progressive flank, and attacking supposedly ‘Putin-Trump-loving’ Republicans.
It is Biden vs Trump, not Ukraine vs Russia, that drives much of the support for the war. Just say “Hunter Biden” or “Vindman” and watch the fireworks “about Ukraine.”
Not at all unlikely. For sure it won’t be a real audit.
We get to take Russia down for almost no cost, in Pentagon terms.
“House Republicans Introduce Resolution to Audit Ukraine Aid Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene led the effort and said she’s willing to reintroduce the legislation in the next Congress”
Wait until the real story comes out! Crime families in America Biden, Clinton, and obama will eventually face prosecution and worse!
>eventually face prosecution and worse!
Right after GW Bush and Cheney go to the Hague!
Not that I don’t share your sentiments, but the political class will never get its comeuppance.
I really wish. But no, I don’t believe. Power protects power. The only potential risk now is to Trump, and that is because of his loss of power and popularity, not because of anything different he did or did not do about wars.
Thinker please give us a sneak preview of Your “Real Story”
Not about me. This week the FTX story dropped including laundering funds for American Democrats and some Republicans. Delicious!
I keep hearing the term “laundering funds,” but I have yet to see evidence for the claim. Do you happen to know of any?
Try many of the Youtube sources covering the FTX scandal and funneling back to Congress.
In other words, no, you don’t know of any.
In what alternative universe is Taylor-Greene the voice of reason? 😳
clown world
“We voted ‘no’ to send money over there, (Ukraine)”
…. republican MTG
wow even broken clocks are right once a day.
i have a feeling that once any aid money actually reaches ukraine then it would be out of reach of any uncle sam audit.
The objective of the war from US point of view was to weaken Russia. One has to wonder who is being weakened.
Well the Russians have lost a lot more tanks then we haven lot more troops than we have.
Many of the same sorts of cheating, stealing, and diversion to the black market happened over and over again, from Vietnam to Afghanistan.
So is it happening this time too? Well, Ukraine before the war was said even by the US to be the most corrupt country in Europe. Wartime conditions and shortcuts are unlikely to have improved that.
Examples that recur: 1) commanders overstate the strength of units, understate the losses, and then continue to collect the pay and weapons and ammo for the extra men, keeping the money and selling the stuff on the black market; 2) “guards” of vast dumps of stuff find ways to sell some off the books (in small ways that happens even inside US weapons storage here at home).
The US has given Ukraine just about 2x as much money as the entire Russian yearly military budget… And they’re still losing badly… Do we really think we can continue our uni polar world?
“Ukraine is losing badly” is pretty much the same quality of statement as “Russia is losing badly.” Or, as MacBeth would put it, “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
Would “Ukraine is losing goodly”, pass muster?
“Both sides are losing” would be accurate.
But the war is taking place in Ukraine. So, they are losing just more than military assets. Unfortunately.
According to latest report from DPR front lines, there are no Ukrainians there. Only foreign grunts.
Anglo-American empire is losing this conflict. Just as planned and expected.
By loosing badly you mean steadily winning back the territory lost in the first days of the war?
Does Marge know the Don said this:
“The Fake News Media refuses to report that I was the one who very early and strongly gave the anti-tank busters (Javelins) to Ukraine, while Obama/Biden was giving blankets, to great and open complaints,’ he said in a statement.”
“Then Biden came in, and canceled the remaining military equipment that was packed, loaded, and ready to be shipped. Now the Fake News Media is trying to say that Trump gave Ukraine nothing and it was Biden who is their great friend and gave them weaponry. The dishonesty is so unbelievable. All I can do is report it!”
this is just another publicity stunt for MTG. But Biden has to be told that he can’t start a war that nobody wanted without consequences.
I wish. But he can start a war. He did.
My point is that there should be consequences for that.
It would also be nice if the public could see which palms are being greased in Taiwan.
You may have noticed all the greasy characters running around Congress? A this point there is so much money floating around it isn’t just palms that are getting greased it’s entire bodies.
Another 37 billion taxpayer dollars for an unauthorized war, not formally agreed to by the people who finance this corrupt Piece of Scheiß government.
Revolting. Vote democratic? They’re worse than the republicans who backed Dubya’s phony invasions, etc. A real audit of where these weapons are going in a country that still crawls with graft has been totally missing. Eventually we’ll see organized terrorists using our weapons against civilian air and other infrastructure.
The people who hatched this abomination should be institutionalized.
What war? We have many more US troops in Syria than in Ukraine.
The war that wouldn’t have happened without the US. That war.
The swamp doesn’t want any audit of the money they’re stealing from the American people
GOOD CALL…!!!!!
Auditing corruption? I rather take my chance playing state lottery.
Anyone who doubts the need to audit or oversee the funds going to Ukraine should go to C-SPAN and search for segments by the Inspector General to the Afghanistan war. According to him, there were billions and billions that were essentially urinated onto the sands of Afghanistan and Iraq. John Sopko is his name.