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Another 100B for Ukraine and Israel. No money to defend our own border.
MTG is a kook but her riders to divert all that money to Hawaii/East Palestine were great.
All these bums should be put on a rocket to the sun.
House approves $61bn aid for Ukraine – what we know so far, and what happens next
US funding package has cleared its biggest hurdle, the House of Representatives. What comes next in the Senate, and how has the world responded?
www.theguardian.com
In the Ukraine bill, of the $60.7bn, a total of about $23bn would be used by the US to replenish its military stockpiles, opening the door to future US military transfers to Ukraine. Another $14bn would go to the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, in which the Pentagon buys advanced new weapon systems for the Ukrainian military directly from US defence contractors.
There is also more than $11bn to fund current US military operations in the region, enhancing the capabilities of the Ukrainian military and fostering intelligence collaboration between Kyiv and Washington; and about $8bn in non-military assistance, such as helping Ukraine’s government continue basic operations, including the payment of salaries and pensions.
The package includes several Republican priorities that Democrats endorsed, or at least were willing to accept. Those include proposals that allow the US to seize frozen Russian central bank assets to rebuild Ukraine; impose sanctions on Iran, Russia, China and criminal organisations that traffic fentanyl; and legislation to require the China-based owner of the popular video app TikTok to sell its stake within a year or face a ban in the US.
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$60 billion goes to 'Ukraine'.
$23 billion goes directly to the US' own stockpiles, leaving $37 billion.
$14 billion goes directly to US defence contractors, leaving $23 billion.
$11 billion goes to US military operations in the region, leaving $12 billion.
Of the remaining $12 billion, some of that is aimed at sanctioning fentanyl traffickers, ie, border security in terms of trafficking.
So you're pissy that around $8 billion goes to fund Ukraine in a manner that doesn't directly benefit the USA, but you're trying to pretend it's $100 billion to be an alarmist weirdo? The Israel stuff I'm with you on, they don't need shit.