Posted on 10/20/2023 9:28:03 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
WASHINGTON — President Biden’s staff confirmed Friday that he is asking Congress for much greater aid to Ukraine by hitching it to a smaller and more popular spending request for Israel after Hamas terrorists slaughtered 1,400 people in a surprise attack this month.
Biden on Thursday night used his second primetime Oval Office address since taking office to urge passage of the combined package, which the White House confirmed Friday morning would be $14.3 billion for Israel — just a quarter of the $61.4 billion he’s seeking for Ukraine.
Another $30.1 billion would go to various other projects, bringing the total to nearly $106 billion.
The smaller requests include $9.15 billion in humanitarian aid, of which Biden’s aides said a yet-to-be-determined amount would go to aid Palestinian civilians affected by Israel’s expected invasion of Gaza, where about 200 hostages including some Americans remain held by Hamas
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Are 1,400 Israelis more precious than several hundred thousand Ukrainian casualties?
Both nations have suffered. Ukraine far worse. But it's not America's obligation to fund either nation. We are not the world's policeman.
1. You don't know who's getting kickbacks from who.
2. This is costing taxpayers $100 billion regardless of where the money eventually goes.
He doesn’t get as much of a kick back from Israel.
He doesn’t get as much of a kick back from Israel.
This is what we’ve sunk to. We’ve fallen so low as a country that an American
candidate is only electable by whatever he says (and doe$) about a foreign country.
A demented Biden’s reelection chance were nil, according to the laws of diminishing returns...........
until the attack on Israel fell in his lap. Now he’s suddenly morphed into a “strong, decisive “leader.”
America’s president is harassing Congress.....not to finance America’s needs.....
Biden wants $100 billion for Israel and Ukraine.
What?
Biden’s spending billions we do not have, then saddles taxpayers with onerous borrowing costs. Taxpayers’ children and grandchildren are compelled to pay the outrageous bills.
<><>Why does the US have to go in debt for these pampered foreigners?
<><>Why cant they stand on their own two feet?
<><>Why cant wealthy Israel and money-grubbing Ukraine do the borrowing for their own needs?
I think the thirst, for the politicians who are warmongers, is for more millions in their own personal/family accounts. The military industrial complex has learned along with foreign nations (likely they learned this long before the foreign countries even got into the game) that American politicians are nothing but for-sale sellouts, whores, for the payout. War is just fine for them as long as long as they get rich from it. China taking American industries was just fine with then, as long as they got rich from it.
The American governmental system is fascist - he who makes the politicians and bureaucrats rich gets to call the shots. The warmongering may be more immoral than other sellouts, but it is not the only one by any score.
No Ukraine....period
“I am the only one sick of this *&*&?”
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Hell no. MANY OF US are long since sick of this PLUNDERING OF AMERICANS’ DWINDLING WEALTH.
What an insult to our ally.
He will not get it.
Can't, at least not yet. The House isn't functioning. Don't know if Joe can find 100 billion plus in contingency funds.
Ot one dime should be given to Ukraine or Israel until the border wall is fully funded and all of the illegals are deported.
Yes it’s obvious who he gets kickbacks from.
While I agree with your sentiment on taxpayer money, I disagree that money spent killing Islamic savages is not money well spent. We either help kill them there or they kill us here.
They need to be put down.
Biden used his second primetime Oval Office address since taking office......not to address America’s needs...... he went on TV to harass Congress for $106 billion (that we know of) that includes
<><>$14.3 billion for Israel —
<><> $61.4 billion for Ukraine
<><>$30.1 billion for various other projects
<><>$9.15 billion is (cough) humanitarian aid,
<><>Palestinian civilians affected by Israel’s planned invasion of Gaza would also cash in
<><>another $500 million request would protect synagogues and other Jewise venues.
That was the argument in 2002 as we prepared to invade Iraq. "Fight them there, or we will have to fight them here."
So what happened? We broke the hornet's nest (as Pat Buchanan put it), and created a refugee crisis so we had to fight them here.
Mideast wars don't destroy Islam. They only send them to the West.
The longer the war, the more refugees for us. And the more they will hate us when they get here.
Not one dime should be given to Ukraine or Israel until the border wall is fully funded and all of the illegals are deported.
More confirmation Democrats despise Israel.
Not the same thing, at all.
America First. What a novel concept.
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