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.
(Excerpt) Read more at theamericanconservative.com ...
Correction: the Biden Crime Family knows how much is going
to Ukraine b/c they’re all getting a cut of the Biden giveaway.
Until we get our deficit on a down hill trajectory we need to quit giving away money by the billions and bucket loads we do not have on other countries and that includes Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan. These countries have more than us. Fix our country now.
Let's hope Johnson isn't really more like Rains' Senator Paine.
When conservatives in Congress pressed the Biden admin to provide the real cost of the Ukraine war.
They are not conservatives they are only good old boy club members with a fake conservative badge on.
The same old, same old WOKE "intelligence' liars will cover for Biden. You're right this one will be a real lulu...
True, wanting to see if they got their entire cut,
Indeed 4:00pm Friday’s isn’t happy hour it’s whack the money hour.
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