Posted on 11/01/2023 4:32:50 PM PDT by Mariner
FIRST ON FOX: Republicans on the House Budget Committee are demanding a full accounting of all funds sent by the United States to Ukraine amid its war with Russia.
Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, and Budget Committee Oversight Task Force Chairman Jack Bergman, R-Mich., directed a letter to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Shalanda Young, demanding transparency regarding the strategy behind sending billions of dollars overseas.
"It has now been over 20 months since Russia invaded Ukraine. Congress has provided $114 billion in supplemental appropriations – not including potentially billions in additional repurposed, transferred, and reprogrammed funds – and yet we are no closer to getting a clear picture of the Biden Administration’s strategy for providing U.S. assistance in Ukraine," the letter reads, asserting that Congress remains in the dark on how funds are being spent.
In a press release shared first with Fox News Digital, the committee urged "the Biden Administration be accountable, transparent, and most importantly, honest, with the American people about funding for Ukraine."
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
It's becoming increasing unlikely a Ukraine bill will ever pass muster with a majority of Republicans, no matter what it's provisions.
None of our business, apparently.
We should limit Ukraine support to arms we build and ship.
No cash.
And limit it to half of what we will send to Israel.
I would add...that is if we support Ukraine at all
I’m sure President Retard will gladly cough up all the dirty laundry 😏
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Ukraine money was designed to be untraceable.
Off shore accounts.
Closing the barn door after the horse has ran off.
Why does this sound like cover for Ukrainian money?
Well, we’ll see if the admin responds at all, or whether they lie or say “it’s war, we don’t know”.
Politically, it’s a death knell for them.
Everyone in DC needs to be fired. Yesterday.
Re. the headline: That ship sailed a long time ago.
somehow I hear the hushed whispers of the Dee-Oh-Jay! and Eff-bee-Eye opening an investigation of any investigators investigating government foreign aid corruption, payoffs, etc. Almost as if the whole system was built to protect the crooks, not find them and bring them to justice. /sarc
Check under the BIdens’ mattresses.
Don’t forget 10% for the Big guy.
5.56mm
I don’t blame them. This is their “accountability”.
Click around on this and you will find nothing. It says the world bank dispersed it, but to who all?
https://www.foreignassistance.gov/
They should have been doing that from day one. How many billions of dollars have already been unaccounted for? It’s not as if money this country has sent to other countries in the past hasn’t been misused or disappeared, but they keep doing the same thing over, and over.
The Democrat plan was always to cut aid to Ukraine, blame the MAGA GOP for it (”Russia, Russia” 2024) and get back to partnering with Putin on Iran, energy, etc. Ukraine is obstructing many items on the Marxist Democrat agenda and they can’t wait to ignore European security once again.
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They avoided it because that was the plan.
They specifically voted to not have the money be auditable.
This is just to pull the wool over and fool the public.
Very true, because then the voters wouldn't be able to know how much of a kickback they are getting through their investments in the military industry. And it's been that way with every proxy war this country has been engaged in for decades.
Shalanda be drafting her response.
Amazing that this yahoo article didn’t say anything negative about this GOP action. Maybe concern about Biden corruption is spreading to all voters.
The first obligation from Congress and President should be maintaining the security of and financial solvency of the USA. That means our ever increasing national debt must be addressed first before even one dime of our tax money or increased debt benefits or goes to any other country. We are no longer financially secure with minimal debt and that must change everything.
It also means every dime that leaves the USA must be fully audited as to who gets it and what it is spent on. I believe these handouts to other countries and their wars are essentially and potentially methods and conspiracies that enable taxes to be stolen from our USA citizens or provide kickbacks to corrupt politicians.
In addition, in return for weakening the financial position of our citizens it should also mean that other safeguards need to be given to USA citizens, such as being given full immigration rights regardless of ethnicity, etc.
We can no longer allow our treasury to be pillaged without checks or balances or benefits to our citizens.
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