Report: Congress Preparing $50 Billion Lame-Duck Ukraine Aid Bill as Mitch McConnell Promises ‘Great

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Report: Congress Preparing $50 Billion Lame-Duck Ukraine Aid Bill as Mitch McConnell Promises ‘Greater’ Assistance

Sean Moran 21 Oct 2022

As Congress approaches a lame-duck session, the legislative body is pursuing a roughly $50 billion Ukraine aid package, according to an NBC News report.

An NBC News report noted that lawmakers are considering a $50 billion aid package as House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy has said that House Republicans are not going to “write a blank check” to Ukraine.

Congress has so far appropriated $65 billion in military and economic aid to Ukraine since the conflict between Russia and the embattled nation began. Congress as recently as September allocated $12 billion in aid to Ukraine in a stop-gap spending bill to continue funding the government through December.

One Republican senator said that proposal would ensure that “[Ukraine] can get through the year.”

The senator added, “It’ll make the $12 billion look like pocket change.”

NBC News noted that the new spending figure would most likely become part of an omnibus spending bill, according to congressional aides and a source close to the Ukraine government.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said in a statement on Tuesday that aid to Ukraine must be expedited and that a potential Senate Republican majority must offer greater assistance:

    For our part, the United States Congress has funded and approved ongoing aid on an overwhelming bipartisan basis. It is not enough for the Biden Administration to slowly, eventually get around to providing it. It must be expedited.

    A Republican majority in the Senate will focus its oversight on ensuring timely delivery of needed weapons and greater allied assistance to Ukraine, rebuilding and modernizing our military capabilities, standing up to terrorist states like Iran, and shoring up our defenses in Asia to deter Chinese aggression.

Former Vice President Mike Pence, speaking at a Heritage Foundation event, labeled Republicans who opposed backing Ukraine in the conflict as “apologists” for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“As Russia continues its unconscionable war of aggression to Ukraine, I believe that conservatives must make it clear that Putin must stop and Putin will pay. There can be no room in the conservative movement for apologists to Putin. There is only room in this movement for champions of freedom,” Pence said.

Not all Republicans are on board with McConnell’s plan to offer seemingly endless aid to Ukraine as the war continues to drag on into the winter.

“We cannot continue to support Ukraine at the expense of our own country. We must advance the interests of Americans before anyone else,” Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), a former House Freedom Caucus chairman, said.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/10/21/report-congress-preparing-50-billion-lame-duck-ukraine-aid-bill-as-mitch-mcconnell-promises-greater-assistance/

[Hoodat]

$2 billion in weapons and $48 billion in graft?

[christian]

Abandon a win of Afghanistan, and fully engage in a similar conflict democrats can spend on, the Ukraine, then abandon in twenty years too!
Can fools repeat being fools forever and never learn a lesson about being blind determined fools?
Vote democrat to keep making the same mistakes, never learning from the old ones, never stop spending until a society collapse, fully Putin/Xi approved.
 

[sneakypete]

I CAN'T be the only one wondering how much of that money will actually reach Ukraine.

[art.prout]

Report: Congress Preparing $50 Billion Lame-Duck Ukraine Aid Bill as Mitch McConnell Promises ‘Greater’ Assistance

Sean Moran 21 Oct 2022

As Congress approaches a lame-duck session, the legislative body is pursuing a roughly $50 billion Ukraine aid package, according to an NBC News report.

An NBC News report noted that lawmakers are considering a $50 billion aid package as House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy has said that House Republicans are not going to “write a blank check” to Ukraine.

Congress has so far appropriated $65 billion in military and economic aid to Ukraine since the conflict between Russia and the embattled nation began. Congress as recently as September allocated $12 billion in aid to Ukraine in a stop-gap spending bill to continue funding the government through December.

One Republican senator said that proposal would ensure that “[Ukraine] can get through the year.”

The senator added, “It’ll make the $12 billion look like pocket change.”

NBC News noted that the new spending figure would most likely become part of an omnibus spending bill, according to congressional aides and a source close to the Ukraine government.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said in a statement on Tuesday that aid to Ukraine must be expedited and that a potential Senate Republican majority must offer greater assistance:

Former Vice President Mike Pence, speaking at a Heritage Foundation event, labeled Republicans who opposed backing Ukraine in the conflict as “apologists” for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“As Russia continues its unconscionable war of aggression to Ukraine, I believe that conservatives must make it clear that Putin must stop and Putin will pay. There can be no room in the conservative movement for apologists to Putin. There is only room in this movement for champions of freedom,” Pence said.

Not all Republicans are on board with McConnell’s plan to offer seemingly endless aid to Ukraine as the war continues to drag on into the winter.

“We cannot continue to support Ukraine at the expense of our own country. We must advance the interests of Americans before anyone else,” Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), a former House Freedom Caucus chairman, said.

more
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/10/21/report-congress-preparing-50-billion-lame-duck-ukraine-aid-bill-as-mitch-mcconnell-promises-greater-assistance/

Eff you and the horse that you rode in on.... Punk Pence

[art.prout]

Abandon a win of Afghanistan, and fully engage in a similar conflict democrats can spend on, the Ukraine, then abandon in twenty years too!
Can fools repeat being fools forever and never learn a lesson about being blind determined fools?
Vote democrat to keep making the same mistakes, never learning from the old ones, never stop spending until a society collapse, fully Putin/Xi approved.
 

Hell, how is voting "republican" much different?

 

[sneakypete]

IF it were possible,Russia should be forced to pay for all this. After all,they are the ones responsible for ALL of it.

The ONLY way I could see this happening would be IF the UN could get their Biden together enough to place an economic embargo on Russia until they start paying damages.

Which,of course,they will never do because Russia is still a dictatorship,and all an economic embargo would accomplish would be to cause innocent Russian civilians to starve and freeze to death because the Neo-Soviet leadership will NEVER allow such things to happen to THEM or their familes.

Communism is THE ultimate "caste system".

[Hoodat]

Demented Biden has already admitted that the money is for NATO and Western Europe.  Graft, graft, graft.

[Hoodat]

Former Vice President Mike Pence, speaking at a Heritage Foundation event, labeled Republicans who opposed backing Ukraine in the conflict as “apologists” for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

If not for Trump, it would be "former Governor Mike Pence".  And we wouldn't be reading about it because no one at the Heritage Foundation would have felt the need to invite him.

There are many who are fully supportive of backing Ukraine with military aid.  Unfortunately, this new $50 billion aid package does very little of that.  Maybe those that want this war extended by denying Ukraine the military equipment needed to defeat the Russians are the ones who are the real Putin supporters.  People like Pence's buddy, Joe Biden.

[Fishrrman]

[libertybele]

Eff you and the horse that you rode in on.... Punk Pence

   Amen!!!!

[Right_in_Virginia]

I CAN'T be the only one wondering how much of that money will actually reach Ukraine.

A more appropriate question is *who* in Ukraine is our money actually reaching?

[christian]

Should we join with those that see only Republicans as the problem,and the 100% WOKE democrats as worthy of being ignored forcing America into full and total dictatorship controlled?  Are people glad to be such lock-stepping fools as to make everything that much worse, while pretending that will make everything better?

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
King James Version
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

[Right_in_Virginia]

BTW..

'The 101st Airborne hasn’t been headquartered in Europe since WWII.  Now, thousands of soldiers from Kentucky are at Ukraine’s door, even though there’s zero vital US national interest in the Black Sea standoff.  Time for America First, for realism and restraint…'  (Video)

https://mobile.twitter.com/CortesSteve/status/1583920390971150338

[Smokin Joe]

For reference.



The Ukrainian border goes around the country, and that includes the wast side, too, where Ukraine borders on Moldova and a little bit of Romania. down to the Black Sea.

If the Russians leave Odessa alone and stay out of Moldava, our troops and theirs should never come into contact.