Funding Cut Off To Ukraine For First Time

By
Carver Malone
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OPINION | This article contains the author's opinion.

The House passed a temporary spending bill known as a continuing resolution (CR) with no funding for Ukraine.

The bill received strong bipartisan support.

The CR, lasting 45 days, maintains current government spending levels but does not address long-term funding issues. (Trending: Trump Makes The Biggest Promise Of His Political Career)

President Biden had requested $24 billion for Ukraine, and the federal government has already provided over $113 billion in aid.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy, in a private Republican conference meeting, argued that a clean CR would challenge Democrats to support a bill lacking Ukraine aid.

“I think if we had a clean one without Ukraine, we would probably be able to move it through,” McCarthy said.

House Republicans successfully passed their stopgap bill without including Ukraine aid, creating pressure on the Senate to adopt the House version. (Trending: Woman Raised in USSR Says Biden’s DOJ Acts Like KGB)

“If we can operationally get another stopgap out of the House … before [senators] act, that’s our best option,” Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) said.

The Biden administration has overseen the approval of $113 billion in U.S. tax dollars to Ukraine under the guise of helping its military against Russia.

However, an investigative report shows that billions of our tax dollars are subsidizing their businesses and being spent on various non-military expenditures.

According to “60 Minutes,” American tax dollars are being used to cover salaries for Ukrainian civil servants, purchase seeds and fertilizers for Ukrainian farmers, subsidize small businesses in Ukraine, fund local police and firefighters, and support the training of rescue dogs.

Some argue this could have been directed toward needs in the United States rather than abroad.

Tatiana Abramova, the owner of a small knitwear company business in Ukraine said “Especially in the condition of war, we have to work. We have to pay taxes, we have to pay wage– salary to our employees. We have to work, don’t stop.”

“Why does that help Ukraine win the war?” Williams asked.

“Because economy is the foundation of everything,” Abramova said.

“We realize that it’s the aid from government, but it’s the aid from the heart of every ordinary American person,” Abramova said that she feels “grateful” and “great” for the U.S. funding.

“In total, America’s pumped nearly $25 billion of non-military aid into Ukraine’s economy since the invasion began,” Williams said.

Americans expressed anger over the allocation of funds intended for war efforts.

Kari Lake posted on X “Not. One. More. Penny. To. Ukraine. Time to put America First.”

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