Zeke Miller – AP News Dec 5, 2023
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will address U.S. senators by video Tuesday during a classified briefing as the Biden administration urges Congress to approve the White House’s nearly $106 billion request for funds for the wars in Ukraine, Israel and other security needs.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Zelenskyy’s appearance after the administration Monday sent an urgent warning about the need to approve the military and economic assistance to Ukraine, saying Kyiv’s war effort to defend itself from Russia’s invasion may grind to a halt without it.
Schumer said the administration had invited Zelenskyy to address the senators so they “could hear directly from him precisely what’s at stake.” They will also be hearing from the secretaries of Defense, State and other top national security officials.
In a letter to House and Senate leaders and released publicly, Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young warned the U.S. will run out of funding to send weapons and assistance to Ukraine by the end of the year, saying that would “kneecap” Ukraine on the battlefield.
She added that the U.S. already has run out of money that it has used to prop up Ukraine’s economy, and “if Ukraine’s economy collapses, they will not be able to keep fighting, full stop.”
“We are out of money — and nearly out of time,” she wrote.
President Joe Biden has sought a nearly $106 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other needs, but it has faced a difficult reception on Capitol Hill. There is growing GOP skepticism about the magnitude of assistance for Ukraine and even Republicans supportive of the funding are insisting on U.S.-Mexico border policy changes to halt the flow of migrants as a condition for the assistance
“Congress has to decide whether to continue to support the fight for freedom in Ukraine as part of the 50-nation coalition that President Biden has built, or whether Congress will ignore the lessons we’ve learned from history and let (Russian President Vladimir) Putin prevail,” National security adviser Jake Sullivan said Monday. “It is that simple. It is that stark choice, and we hope that Congress on a bipartisan basis will make the right choice.”
But negotiations over the border security package broke down over the weekend as Republicans insisted on provisions Democrats said are draconian, aides said. Talks are expected to resume this week, along with a test vote expected Wednesday.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Monday that his party is “still at the table.”
Congress already has allocated $111 billion to assist Ukraine, including $67 billion in military procurement funding, $27 billion for economic and civil assistance and $10 billion for humanitarian aid. Young wrote that all of it, other than about 3% of the military funding, had been depleted by mid-November.
Meanwhile, the GOP-controlled House has passed a standalone assistance package for Israel as it fights the war with Hamas in Gaza, while the White House has maintained that all of the priorities must be met.
House and Senate are both insane and seditious. They could care less. Supporting Israel supports the US wish to be a big part of Eretz Israel. The crap about “our only ally in the ME” is pathetic and the handiwork of a country programmed to be destroyed by those who insist on donations to both Ukraine and Israel. One word describes this phenomenon, ludicrous……
war must go on to exterminate more whites by commie russian nutjobs
Would you take out a loan to give to charity? Of course you wouldn’t and neither would anyone in Congress. Yet that’s what there doing with your credit card.
Sneak preview simulation of how it will likely go down.
Not one stinking cent should have ever been sent to those thieving low-life scum in Khazaria, er I mean Jewkraine, in the first place.
Loathsome degenerate satanic uber Jew Chuck Schitsmear, nothing but an agent of treachery and treason, should have been strangled at birth. But since justice wasn’t served right then and there, it’s not too late to shove UpChuck Schitsmear down the steps of the glorified septic tank known as the Capitol, shatter his kneecaps, have him violently sodomized by DeShawn and the Project Boyz, drag him through the streets by his ankles, beat the ever living piss out of him, and hang him from a highway overpass as a proper reward for all he has done to degrade and destroy the cuntry.
Then we had “Jake Sullivan”, a vile mendacious sniveling shit weasel, spewing more absurd vomit into a microphone about the “fight for freedom” in Khazaria/Jewkraine. “Freedom” must have been an error in transcription as it really meant “free the dumb” of more of their money for another massive swindle. “Sullivan” certainly deserves to have his tongue ripped out by the root and stuffed up his own ass.
But no, the parade of insulting treasonous buffoonery didn’t end there, as “Senate Republican leader” Mitch McConnell was wheeled out to further humiliate himself and the Jewnited States with his special brand of sniveling treachery. How McConnell has avoided being chased through the streets and butchered by now is beyond me. He must not go out in public at all. McConnell will go down in history as one of THE most shameful disgraces in American history, which is really saying something given the race to the bottom in recent decades.
Oh, and Nico is apparently calling himself “Pedro” in this one. LOL Adios, Pedro!