President Joe Biden is asking Congress to provide $13.7 billion in emergency funding for Ukraine as U.S. aid to the war-torn country is running out and Ukrainian forces step up attacks against Russian positions around Kherson.
The request, which comes as lawmakers are preparing to return to Washington, is part of a larger $47.1 billion emergency spending package the White House is proposing to pay for the COVID-19 response, the ongoing monkeypox outbreak and help for recent natural disasters in Kentucky and other states.
Congress will have to extend current financing for federal agencies before it runs out on Sept. 30 to avoid a government shutdown.
The Ukraine funds would provide additional military support, along with intelligence assistance that is credited with helping the Ukrainians score critical battlefield successes, plus economic aid for a country whose economy has been ravaged by the war.
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Only the most ignorant and GREEDY MINORITY fool believes money grows on trees... or can be printed with abandon and not result in hyperinflation and the collapse of the currency as an instrument for commercial exchange.. One's national currency can not be used to forgive trillions in debt, fund foreign wars, rebuild other nations, and generally become the tender for every socialist program in the world without serious consequences... the bankrupting of all those who hold ONLY CURRENCY based assets... wages, minor savings, stocks, and bonds, retail goods and services, etc. the Bankrupting of the middle class is the result... the super wealthy escape bankruptcy by foreclosing on all the REAL ASSETS OF VALUE... those not tied to the DOLLAR>
Programs that excuse trillions in student loan debt or provide billions to illegal aliens... rapidly devalue our currency. The Globalists and Democrats have awakened to the idea that NEW TXES ARE NOT NECESSARY to fund anything... Just confiscate the wealth of the middle class and low-end millionaires by printing currency... Let inflation become the tax... How convenient, no legislative debate on taxes, just print currency using Executive Auhtority to do so... to hell with the national debt cieiling. when it is reached.. Congress has always raised it and what else can they do, monies to pay the interest on the debt must be raised...as the US can't default... can it? I assure you it can... when other nations refuse payment in US Dollars for settlement for commercial and government transactions.
Once other nations. and commercial interests refuse the dollar for payment... it's over. OVER! Hyperinflation in the thousand percentile will hit and our dollars will become worthless wallpaper. Once, the wages paid for one's labor will not provide the income needed to provide the necessities of life... the incentive to work is gone. Chaos ensues and the State steps in to restore order... THE GREAT RESET TAKES PLACE and one is either saddled with communism or the workings of a Fuedal System where the super wealthy provide a system of PATRONAGE... to a world full of peons/surfs. Or, the commnist state is erected as the dominant government, social, and commercial institution.
In any event, the GREAT RESET becomes a reality ... the New World Order.
Biden is so corrupt and so is Zelensky. I feel so sorry for the people
I do NOT consent....when every single veteran and American citizen is taken care of...NOT ILLEGALS...then I might consider okaying my tax $$$$ going to the bottomless pit of Ukraine
Since when do the people need to consent to anything... and when the people are told that elections have consequences... they certainly do... ESPECIALLY IN A RIGGED ELECTION.
By the way, the government no longer needs to approve or raise TAXES... they simply print money and raise the debt ceiling when they spend it all.. .no tax increase necessary... JUST INFLATION the cruelest of taxes... as it hits the middle class and poor the hardest
Inflation is an indirect tax...levied on those who can least afford it. Printing currency and raising the debt ceiling is an indirect tax on all US Dollar vested assets and settlements. The current rate of Inflation represents the largest single tax increase ever foisted on the people... and it was done without a vote.
The Installed Puppet will get his 10%