Posted on 04/09/2024 2:27:26 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
One of the worst kept secrets in Washington is no one actually knows just how much money the United States has spent in support of Ukraine. Over the past year, however, conservatives in Congress have been pushing President Joe Biden and his administration for the real number, and they’re finally getting some answers.
In a letter sent to Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young on Tuesday, Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, along with Sens. Roger Marshall, Rand Paul, Mike Lee, and twelve other members of Congress, chronicled the immense difficulty Congress has had in getting what should be readily available information from the Biden administration.
When Vance and other conservatives in Congress started pressing the Biden administration to provide the real cost of the Ukraine war in January 2023, the lawmakers estimated the U.S. had spent “a minimum of $114 billion.” Now, with added information from the OMB, Vance and company estimate the current total of aid to Ukraine amounts to at least $125 billion—$14 billion over what the OMB had previously claimed.
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Sure would be interesting to know where exactly the money is going.
You can’t prove how much Zelenskyy stole from the pot if you don’t know how much was in the pot.
I’ve been saying for two years, that Biden is skimming 75% of the aid to fund his agenda, since Sinema and Manchin wouldn’t let it pass. Wake up, people.
They are buying private yachts and castles in Spain and Germany. There was an article about Zelensky’s wife on a private shopping spree on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, California.
It’s worse than that. They get a rocket, 155 round or tank made in the 90s. DC values it like a depreciated asset rather than the cost of replacing it. So it maybe is counted at 2% of the value it has. This lets DC lie and undercount the amount of aid we are giving.
In some cases they decide that 155 round is fully depreciated, so they give it a NEGATIVE value to account for the fact they will not have to pay to destroy it. So they subtract it’s cost from how much aid we gave them.
We also fly spy missions all over the black sea and in the EU for Ukraine. That’s free and not “Ukraine aid”. The cost of transporting heavy equipment to Poland to hand over is not counted.
It’s a giant scam and lie.
There is a hellscape of accounting scams DC is running. it’s 300 Billion if it’s a penny. Maybe far more.
FTA-——When conservatives in Congress pressed the Biden admin to provide the real cost of the Ukraine war in Jan 2023, the lawmakers estimated the U.S. had spent “a minimum of $114 billion.”
<><>Now, with added OMB information, Cong Vance and company estimate the current total to Ukraine amounts to at least $125 billion—$14 billion over what the OMB had previously claimed.
<><>That’s not all. Conservatives believe the Biden administration could give Ukraine around another $4 billion in the form of weapons transfers from U.S. stockpiles under Presidential Drawdown Authority.
<><>This would bring the total amount to Ukraine to $129 billion.
Cong Vance and company concluded Biden OMB’s Sept 2023 response was “nonresponsive.”
In a follow-up letter sent September 28, 2023, they added that
<><>“If OMB’s spreadsheet is to be relied on to produce such a figure—and we believe it cannot be—it is around $111 billion.
<><>It would appear likely that the data you have yet to provide would raise this figure by an indeterminate magnitude.
“Every one of these assertions has been validated,” the Tuesday letter claims. On March 8, 2024, “nearly six months after we again requested a full accounting of Ukraine spending, more than a year after our original request, and one business day before the OMB director was scheduled to testify before the Senate Budget Committee,” the letter notes, OMB finally decided to hand over “another tranche of information.” What it included was shocking.
<><>The latest OMB data dump to Congress revealed, according to the lawmakers’ letter,
<><>that the Biden administration had failed to report at least another $684 million in appropriated Ukraine spending, <><>left out another $900 million in DOD assistance connected to the Ukraine war,
<><>and a number of other pitfalls that has undercounted the total amount of Ukraine aid by a magnitude of billions.
There could be more, too, as lawmakers included a list of 14 probing questions and information requests in their latest correspondence with the OMB director.
No surprise—it’s not Joe Biden’s money at stake........ just the American people’s tax dollars.
Bradley Devlin is the political editor for The American Conservative. Previously, he was an Analysis Reporter for the Daily Caller, and has been published in the Daily Wire and the Daily Signal, among other publications that don’t include the word “Daily.” He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Political Economy. You can follow Bradley on Twitter @bradleydevlin.
Yeah, no kidding.
Deliberately, on purpose. Standard M.O. That's what happens in proxy wars. Nobody actually knows what's being sent, or spent. Nobody is held accountable for the crap that leaves here, nor where it ends up. And yet they continue to do the same thing over, and over again with impunity.
Iraq was a quagmire of corruption.
Afghanistan ended in disaster.
This failed Ukraine Project is no different .
There’s a war going on, you expect good record keeping !?!😉
The DeepState Criminal Cabal has these robberies worked out.
With their Forever Wars , the suckers never stop paying for their wars.
We’ll find that AT LEAST $500B will be the REAL AMOUNT, assuming that Trump gets back to the White House, and that is why all the Zeepers are trying to jail him first.
Good .
Total waste.
After enough deliberate miscalculations, I would.
Not one more nickel for Ukraine until the southern US border is completely closed.
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Well, the Zeeps assure us it's not for mansions or yachts.
Of course most of us knew Biden and his goons and thugs were lying. Maybe 51 of ‘em will sign a letter saying, ‘Oh no, really Biden is telling the truth...’ Democrat filth always lie for each other. And crime? It’s up. k Way up. and Biden’s goons lie about that too. Lucky for them the press is as corrupt and vile as they are.
Interesting....thanks.
Does this include the pensions we are paying for? Who ever heard of that in a war.
Oh, I just cant wait to see the intel letter defending Joenothing “forgetting”
about the tax dollar billions he “forgot” he slipped Ukraine. Should be a lulu.
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