Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday called on Congress to approve President Biden’s request for an additional $24 billion in spending on the Ukraine war “right away.”
The White House formally made the request to Congress last week. If approved, it will bring total US spending on the war to about $137 billion. “I urge Congress to pass this legislation funding — the supplemental funding, excuse me — right away,” Blinken told reporters.
Supplemental funding is not limited by the debt ceiling deal that was reached between the White House and House Republicans. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has previously expressed that he might not support a supplemental funding bill that would blow past the spending limits, but he has been a staunch supporter of the proxy war against Russia.
Over in the Senate, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is eager to approve the new Ukraine aid, saying he wants to address it “as quickly as possible.” The White House asked for the $24 billion in Ukraine spending as part of a $40 billion supplemental bill that also includes domestic disaster relief and funds for border security.
The $24 billion for the Ukraine war includes $13 billion in military aid, $7.3 billion in economic and humanitarian assistance, and $3.3 billion for infrastructure projects for regional countries impacted by the conflict.
The infrastructure funds were included in the name of countering China. “It is essential that we offer a credible alternative to the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) coercive and unstable lending and infrastructure projects for developing countries around the world,” Shalanda Young, director of the US Office of Management and Budget, said in a letter to McCarthy on the request.
The request came after a CNN poll found 55% of Americans are opposed to Congress authorizing more spending on the war in Ukraine. Biden administration officials are not phased by the lessening support and have made clear they expect to be fueling the proxy war for the long term.
“We don’t know how much longer this war is going to go on, or how much more assistance we might need to support Ukraine,” a senior administration official told reporters last week. “We won’t be bashful about going back to Congress beyond the first quarter of next year if we feel like we need to do that.”
The cynical graft attached to the Biden brand is apparent for all to see, though how the freak was ever elected will always be a mystery.. Doubtful that the old fool will ever be prosecuted by his fellow criminals..
Maui could use some help!
““It is essential that we offer a credible alternative to the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) coercive and unstable lending and infrastructure projects for developing countries around the world,” Shalanda Young, director of the US Office of Management and Budget”
China lending for infrastructure projects around the world is coercive and unstable to whom? To the people who need the third world to stay dependent economically on the west, that’s who. Mutually beneficial projects are a strange concept to the old colonial west.
So, to be clear we’re giving Ukraine $24 billion more. Meanwhile the Feds are apparently giving $700 per household to those living in fire-devastated Maui. On that island there are about 165,000 inhabitants, so there are maybe 55,000 households, perhaps half of which will be deemed deserving of assistance. Therefore, the Fed will shell out $19,250,000 or thereabouts. Ordinarily I’d think this was a lot of money — but it’s only about 8 percent of this one tranch of $24B of the over $100B, give or take, the US has committed to Ukraine. So of the $100B being spent on a war in Europe, Maui, in the state of Hawaii, is apparently worth 0.00019 percent. What is like to be a citizen of the US at this point?
What is it like to be a citizen of the US at this point? Abused and disenfranchised. Time to get out now before the proverbial roof caves in because there ain’t no one here to help you.
Including all the swag delivered by the World Bank, IMF, EU, etc, the Ukraine fiasco is such a gigantic Scam; much of it never to be accounted for..
Were it given to the Palestinians, it would make more sense..
This angers me to no end. And his “no comment” on deaths are you f—king kidding me?
Good points, but actually 19 million is less than 0.1% of just this latest $24 billion … Americans have gotten used to these rediculous numbers, but $24B is a LOT of money.
Slap in the face to all the fire victims in Maui….It was telling that Biden’s reply when asked during his vacation about the disaster was “No comment” Of course any time reporters mention Ukraine he is never at a loss for words. Too bad the shipments of cash and goodies can’t at least make a courtesy stop in Hawaii on their way to the promise land.
https://babylonbee.com/news/disaster-relief-plane-flies-over-hawaii-on-way-to-ukraine
Too bad that sweetantisemite continues to be so badly triggered by (((Zelenskyy))) and Ukraine getting US and western support to fight back against your war criminal Putin’s illegal imperialist genocidal invasion of territorial conquest against a peaceful democratic neighbor.
Stop playing the anti-Semite card. Common sense, if you are informed, tells you, Putin offered neutrality, another Austria, AKA peace and prosperity, and Biden blocked it, claiming the Ukrainians want NATO membership and they are willing to annihilate their nation to get it, they would rather die than lose their right to join NATO even if the European NATO members said no.
Now take a good look at Ukraine, do you honestly believe the Ukrainians preferred to die for that ruin of a nation and they did not want neutrality? Was there a referendum???
They voted for Zelensky because he promised peace and the MINSK agreements made it possible, except, the AMERICANS DID NOT SUPPORT THE MINSK AGREEMENTS. BIDEN IS A LIAR.
Take off your rose colored glasses, open your eyes and ears and use your head. The UKRAINIAN people did not want war, neo-Nazis did and for money Zelensky would kill his mother.
USA/NATO, the neocons pushed Ukraine over the cliff and in the Abyss.
War criminals in Washington are running the show, going all the way back to W. Bush another war criminal
What made “neutrality” Putin’s to “offer?” Last time I checked, he didn’t hold office in Ukraine.
President Putin offered the concept to Ukraine of remaining neutral as a way to avoid Russia’s invasion meant to halt the killing of ethnic Russians by Ukrainian Nazis in eastern Ukraine (the Donbas region, so-called).
Short and to the point, and unfortunately it bears repeating.
Message to the jackals in DC: If you want to avoid war, don’t provoke it.
Thomas, that is about the most absurd thing you posted. Obviously you are not informed at all. I thought you had a higher IQ than than room temperature. Look it up, I will not do it for you.
Well, I can’t contest your credentials where room temperature IQ is concerned.
I can’t wait for peace but you know the US will dump huge amounts of money in there to keep Chinese money (and influence) out during the rebuild.
That money to Joe via his son was well spent by Ukraine was it not?
Maybe Congress should Approve New Border Wall Spending ‘Right Away’ ?
I see you took the bait that the administration put out there for republican votes in congress.
These bastards can start by donating their salaries…
and at least 75% of the donations and lobbying fees they collect.
Amen! Vic.
“We won’t be bashful about going back to Congress beyond the first quarter of next year if we feel like we need to do that.”
Yeah, we didn’t think you would be bashful …
“Blinken Urges Congress to Approve New Ukraine Spending ‘Right Away’ -The White House requested $24 billion in additional spending on the war”
FJF FAB
If our elected congress had a spine and decency and integrity and morals they would say, no money without an audit first and then we will see.
The Biden cabinet, congress, senate and all the alphabet gangs there in DC are ruled by insane people. Criminally insane that is.
The request came after a CNN poll found 55% of Americans are opposed to Congress authorizing more spending on the war in Ukraine. Biden administration officials are not phased by the lessening support and have made clear they expect to be fueling the proxy war for the long term.
Democracy vs. Autocracy. Which side are we on again?
The WH is populated by the Royal We. There is no longer a functioning government in the spirit of the US Constitution in Washington DC. We have descended into the shadows of 1930’s Germany.
Sorry, not disagreeing, but I think a poll showing anything less than 85% or so objecting is even remotely meaningful.
The only 2 political parties that wins presidential elections is the Pentagon and the Military Industrial Complex.
Plutocrats and oligarchs win, no matter.
joined on the hips, the one and only party we have.
At least, if the MSM did its job.
We do have a corporate autocratic/dictatorship. Democracy went up in smoke a long time ago.
Man, this Blinken guy is just full of urges, isn’t he?
It’s like continuing to use a credit card well past its limit. It just doesn’t make any sense. At some point it’s going to hit the fan just like any individual who continues to spend recklessly.
Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi