{"id":275539,"date":"2023-11-11T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T06:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=275539"},"modified":"2023-11-12T08:33:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T08:33:32","slug":"pentagon-defense-aid-packages-for-ukraine-getting-smaller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=275539","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon: Defense aid packages for Ukraine getting smaller"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rachel Amran \u2013 The Kiev Independent Nov 1, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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The U.S. government is continuing to provide military aid to Ukraine but the packages are getting smaller, Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh stated<\/a> in a press conference on Nov. 9.<\/p>\n

“Allies and partners are continuing to support Ukraine, we are continuing to support Ukraine in what they need in their fight,” Singh said. “You saw a package that we rolled out last week. We’re going to continue to roll out packages, they just are getting smaller.”<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, White House spokesman John Kirby told<\/a> reporters that the U.S. has already spent 96% of the funds allocated for Ukraine since the beginning of the war.<\/p>\n

Singh confirmed that the U.S. has “used up all of USAI [Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative] funding.”<\/p>\n

“We only have $1 billion left in existing resources to back fill U.S. stocks. We still do have a small amount of PDA left, but as you’ve seen, our packages have been getting smaller because we have had to meter out our support for Ukraine.”<\/p>\n

Funding to Ukraine has become a political controversy in the U.S. in recent weeks, with the Biden administration strongly backing<\/a> continued support while partisan battles over aid rock the legislature.<\/p>\n

The White House presented<\/a> a broad funding package of $105 billion several weeks ago that tied together $61 billion in aid for Ukraine with around $14 billion for Israel, as well as other items.<\/p>\n

This plan encountered opposition from House Republicans and recently appointed Speaker Mike Johnson, who said that backing Tel Aviv in its fight against Hamas takes priority and proposed a stand-alone funding bill for Israel.<\/p>\n

Senate Democrats blocked<\/a> a Republican-sponsored bill to provide emergency aid for Israel without sending any funds to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

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Enthusiasm for a conflict with Russia and financial support for Ukraine appears to be diminishing among Kiev\u2019s western benefactors <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275539"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275558,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275539\/revisions\/275558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}