Posted on 04/23/2024 7:43:51 PM PDT by bimboeruption
The Senate has approved a massive $95 billion emergency foreign aid package with no U.S. border security.
A group of RINOs joined Democrats to support the bill. The measure passed by a vote of 79 to 18.
The passing of the bill saw 48 Democrats joined by 31 Republicans in favor, with the majority of the RINOs supporting the foreign aid efforts. However, 15 Republicans broke ranks to vote against the package, joining three Democrats in opposition.
The finalized bill encompasses extensive provisions:
$47.7 billion through the Defense Department to support Ukraine’s military with training, equipment, weapons, and logistical aid. $13.4 billion to restock U.S. military equipment sent to Ukraine. $20.5 billion for U.S. Armed Forces support in Europe. $9.5 billion in economic aid to Ukraine as a forgivable loan. Added to this is 15 billion** in military aid designated for Israel and **9 billion in humanitarian assistance for Gaza and other conflict zones, a point of contention for conservative Republicans concerned about the funds being intercepted by Hamas. The bill also allots $8 billion to counter Chinese aggression in the Indo-Pacific and introduces legislation that could lead to a forced divestment or potential ban of TikTok in the United States. Senate easily passes aid bill for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan. The bill now goes to the President for his signature. pic.twitter.com/ccWPx4wahR
— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) April 24, 2024
“Today the Senate sends a unified message to the entire world. America will always defend democracy in its hour of need. We tell our allies we will stand with you. We tell our adversaries don’t mess with us,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer declared on the Senate floor per NBC.
“If we want the world to remain a safe place for freedom, for democratic principles, and for our future prosperity, then America must lead the way. And with this bill, the Senate declares that American leadership will not waver, not falter, not fail.”
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said U.S. “adversaries want America to decide that reinforcing allies and partners is not in our interest and that investing in strategic competition is not worth it. They want us to take hard-earned credibility and light it on fire.”
“But today, the Senate responded by reaffirming a commitment to rebuild and modernize our military, restore our credibility, and give the current commander in chief, as well as the next, more tools to secure our interests,” he continued.
This vote comes after the globalist sycophants, led by globalist Speaker Mike Johnson, passed three separate foreign-aid bills that will provide funding to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, transferring a total of $95 billion from the U.S. Treasury directly to foreign governments. The massive foreign-aid package now heads to Joe Biden, where it will be rubber-stamped and signed.
“I will sign this into law immediately to send a message to the world,” said Joe Biden in a statement urging Democrats in the House and the Democrat-controlled Senate to pass the un-American legislation.
Earlier, 29 Senate Republicans voted to advance the $95 Billion Foreign aid bill:
Senator Boozman (AR) Senator Britt (AL) Senator Capito (WV) Senator Cassidy (LA) Senator Collins (ME) Senator Cornyn (TX) Senator Cotton (AR) Senator Cramer (ND) Senator Crapo (ID) Senator Ernst (IA) Senator Fischer (NE) Senator Graham (SC) Senator Grassley (IA) Senator Hoeven (ND) Senator Hyde-Smith (MS) Senator Kennedy (LA) Senator Lankford (OK) Senator McConnell (KY) Senator Moran (KS) Senator Mullin (OK) Senator Murkowksi (AK) Senator Ricketts (NE) Senator Risch (ID) Senator Romney (UT) Senator Rounds (SD) Senator Sullivan (AK) Senator Thune (SD) Senator Tillis (NC)
This is a developing story. Please check back for more updates.
The UniParty prevails once more.
Good.
Until rather recently a “uniparty”, in a given case, was a good thing.
It implied a national consensus.
It’s rare that something like that can happen again. This may be the last time.
These days Americans tend to hate each other with a vicious malice. There are good reasons for that, but it’s still a disastrous situation. It’s going to get to Hutu-Tutsi levels at some point.
Why are they still sending money to Ukraine?
That was supposed to be annexed by mighty Russia in 4-6 weeks going on 2 1/2 yrs ago.
“There’s an infinite amount of cash at the Federal Reserve”
Neel Kashkari, Minneapolis Federal Reserve
Seriously some writer said that Russia chose 2022 to initiate the war for, among many reasons, the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve (that is, the United States) were indebted at WWII levels and could not sustain a large war.
He was probably right.
Should Biden be reelected you can bet China will make its move, the United States will respond by going further into debt, and then will come the end of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.
When that happens it won’t be like post war Britain where everyone was poor but civilized, it will be hell on earth when the gimmedats don’t get what they want.
How many Ukrainian flags were they waving?
You can always count on the Uniparty to defend “democracy” everywhere but home.
Never mind that we’re $34 trillion in debt.
Because $200 Trillion in unpayable debt was not enough.
This is what happens in a system where grifters and pay for legislation whores are who’s financed by monied interests, who get them on the ballot and pay for advertising.
It’s over.
These funds are good for probably another 150,000 lives wasted.
79 to 18?
Sounds like a Michigan v. Southwest Michigan School for the Gender Neutral football score.
Somebody’s gonna get rich.
Russian rates are 16% and the ruble is down 40% and still sinking.
The US is $200,000,000,000,000 debt/unfunded obligations and is borrowing at 4.5%.
Who can’t afford what?
The proximate cause of the invasion in 2014 and 2022 was the doubling of the price of oil in 2013 and 2021.
Yes, it is. The sooner people realize this the better. Then the question becomes, what's the feasible path forward?
And, it's a not a good thing for bought-and-paid, corrupt politicians to be pandering to the defense industry and wealthy business interest by continuing a war that is needlessly killing people and resulting in the destruction of a country, let alone doing so while ignoring the fact are borders are wide open.
If you think defeating the eviiil Russians is such an important issue, get your sorry, hypocritical ass over to Ukraine and fight them and die doing so. The world would be a better place if you had the courage of our convictions and did so.
Ukrainian lives certainly don’t matter to our political elite.
It’s funny not really how similar the stuff is to the arms race bankrupting the USSR.
That was the USSR-something with some actual financial might.
It wasn’t a glorified gas station run by a KGB stooge playing 8D chess yet still at war 2 1/2 yrs later.
Isn’t it great when someone who isn’t a US Citizen, and who lives in a foreign country (Spain), comes on a Conservative American site and gives us advice from a globalist viewpoint? </s>
Annexation was not the goal. The Russian speaking oblasts of Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Luhansk were to be incorporated as Novorossia.
Ukrainian military was to be neutralized so as to not put NATO nuclear armed missiles at the doorstep of Moscow. (Read Khrushchev and Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis)
These objectives are being met. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian men killed. Women fled to the rest of Europe.
Elites hate European people, Ukrainian, Russian, British, Irish or otherwise. Why else but the importation of Sub-Saharan Muslims into Europe, the same people who throw Sub-Saharan Christians into the ocean? Do they hate Christians? The answer is obviously yes. Do they hate Europeans? Yes.
This war is achieving the effect of depopulating Ukraine of native Europeans and I hate it. I don’t hate Russians. I don’t hate Ukrainians. I hate our western “elites” who in turn hate us.
Russia had hight interest rates before the war began.
Of course it is not the goal.
Whatever is accomplished the day President Trump floods the world with oil will be exactly what Putin was after all along-like magic.
The US is de facto defender of the free world via treaty or not. Leaving the NATO encroachment excuse withering in the wind.
I don’t like blowing all of this money.
I don’t like that climate hoax US energy policy bought and paid for Russian and Iran warring.
It’s our energy policy vs our tax dollars times two incl the single most contrived war in the history of earth.
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