The Biden administration has asked Congress to approve $24 billion in additional spending on Ukraine as it’s working to ramp up the proxy war as much as possible during President Biden’s final weeks in office.
POLITICO Pro obtained a request from the White House’s Office of Management and Budget that asked Congress to include additional Ukraine spending in a continuing resolution that’s expected to be voted on next month. Two congressional aides said Congress received the proposal on Monday.
The request asks for $8 billion for the Ukraine Security Assistance initiative, a form of military aid that allows the US to purchase weapons for Ukraine, and $16 billion to replace US military equipment that’s been sent to Ukraine.
The money to replenish US weapons would allow the Biden administration to use the remaining Presidential Drawdown Authority for Ukraine, which allows the US to ship weapons directly from US military stockpiles. The administration is looking to rush arms shipments to Ukraine throughout the rest of the transition period.
If Congress agrees to the request, it would bring total US spending on the proxy war, according to publicly available data, to about $210 billion. Earlier this year, President Biden signed a foreign military aid bill into law that included $61 billion for Ukraine. Before that, the US spent at least $125 billion on the conflict.
US officials have told The Washington Post that the Biden administration is trying to put Ukraine in the best position possible before President-elect Donald Trump might push for an end to the war. US officials acknowledged that within a few months, Ukraine could be pushed into negotiations and could end up ceding territory.
The Onion bit about The Giant Hole in the Ground We Throw Money Into never gets old or filled up. Shame died in the Klieg lights of WaPo's total co-optation, its hardest journalistic ethics burned down to nubbins.
A sad joke by Jake Sullivan and Anthoney Blinken, America's war criminals.
Didn't the Pentagon fail its latest audit? …I wonder where all the money went. …No. …I'm not really wondering about that… or whether I can build a bunker… or whether I should stock up on water and canned food. I'm tired and done wondering.
This veers towards a "who lost Ukraine"?
The request asks for $8 billion for the Ukraine Security Assistance initiative, a form of military aid that allows the US to purchase weapons for Ukraine, and $16 billion to replace US military equipment that’s been sent to Ukraine.
What a scam. C'mon congress, where's your patriotism? Uncle Sam needs to replace that weaponry to keep us safe.
”You get your money for nothing but your tricks for free!…”
Let me think about this for a minute: NO.
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We need more "no". A lot more "no". Right away.
DC Ghouls at their finest! Republicratz will vote it in.
I would say the RetardiQAns would disapprove the request because they want Trump to sign their future legislations without any vetoes…!
"…and $16 billion to replace US military equipment that’s been sent to Ukraine.
The money to replenish US weapons would allow the Biden administration to use the remaining Presidential Drawdown Authority for Ukraine, which allows the US to ship weapons directly from US military stockpiles."
Even the author is confused. Biden already shipped billions of dollars of American weaponry without congressional approval, claiming it was an emergency. He now asks Congress to replace it.
Wars are equal to poverty, in addition to criminality…
But didn't they find all kinds of accounting mistakes that proved replacing the weapons, that we already sent, was going to be way cheaper than expected?
They found billions in accounting errors, so they had Billions more to ship, three times already, if I'm not mistaken.
They already shipped billions of dollars worth of EXTRA weapons making the claim that the replacement costs were lower than thought.
Isn't this newest move a tacit admission that they were lying about the cost of replacement? And if so, doesn't that mean that they knowingly shipped more weapons than congress had approved?
Why would they need more money for their drawdown account if they hadn't already spent it all and more?
Now they want enough money to actually replace the weapons, not just pretend they can replace them with the money they were given. Will this extra 16 billion be enough? Not likely, chances are that everything will cost yet more to produce, by the time they actually get around to doing it.
The truth is that we have no idea how much what they sent was worth or how much it will cost to replace. When has the government ever come in under budget when it comes to the cost of arms production? It always costs more, way more.
In democracies, an outgoing government goes into caretaker mode, making no such decisions.
Israel will be super jealous now…!
The Ukrainians need help for repairing their hurt power system before the cold winter begins.
How ironic that it is a South African immigrant who has led the fight to protect and defend Freedom of Speech in America. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1862145513879134445