The Daily Mail states that "Biden sends $250million of weapons to Ukraine in FINAL aid package until Congress can approve more cash for Kyiv." Per the article:
President Joe Biden announced a $250 million weapons package to Ukraine on Wednesday in what officials said could be a final amount of aid from the U.S. unless Congress approves new funding.
Biden has asked Congress for another $61 billion in aid to Ukraine, but Republicans are refusing to approve the assistance without an agreement with Democrats to tighten security along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The White House has warned that without the additional appropriation U.S. aid for Kyiv will run out by the end of the year.
The package includes air defense munitions, anti-armor munitions, ammunition for high mobility artillery rocket systems, and more than 15 million rounds of small arms ammunition.
The article notes that Congress has approved more than $110 billion in assistance to Ukraine since the Russian invasion in 2022.
By way of comparison, as I noted a few months ago, "[i]n January [2022], Biden announced his administration would distribute $27 billion over the next five years to fix or rebuild thousands of the nation’s bridges. The current estimate to repair all bridges in the U.S. is $125 billion, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers." So for the cost of the Ukraine war alone (including Biden's most recent request) we could have repaired every bridge in the country and still have billions left over.
Why does Biden care more about Ukrainians than Americans?
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