Senate Advances $95 Billion Bill for Ukraine
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So the Senate, they must have gotten some phone calls from the military contractors out there, defense contractors out there, moving closer to passing $95 billion aid packages for Ukraine, mostly for Ukraine, also for Israel and Taiwan, showing undiminished bipartisanship despite growing opposition from Republican hardliners and Donald Trump.
Whenever you hear bipartisanship too. Oh boy, they love that. Oh, bipartisan. The Democrat -led Senate cleared the latest procedural hurdle and moved the foreign aid measure on an ultimate vote within the next few days. And this money is viewed very, very crucial by Ukraine at this point in time. First and foremost, okay, to me,
And again, it’s a debate that needs to be had whether or not we should be funding Ukraine and doing all of these things. And we’ve discussed this at length here on the program. The one thing that, you know, again, you got so -called Republicans, people that are supposed to be, I guess, fiscally sane. Right. Good luck with that. You want $95 billion? Find an offset. Find an offset, meaning cut it from somewhere else.
We don’t have the money, meaning that, okay, you guys wanna spend 95, you want it so bad. Okay, I don’t know, cut the IRS’s budget. Find ways of coming up with your $95 billion by making cuts elsewhere.
Anyway, I don’t know if this is going to get fast -tracked. And again, I don’t know what’s going to happen when it gets to the House. It’s going to be interesting, to say the least. Remember, Republicans were originally, you know, say, oh, we’re not going to pass any of this. We’re not going to do this unless we get a decent border bill. They got that albatross last week that nobody was for. And now guess what?
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They’re not even able to hold the line on that. They’ve got to get that money out the door as quickly as possible. What’s it going to lead to in the Ukraine? I would assume more money down the road.
More money on the road, because if you think that $95 billion, well it’s not even 95, that’s what is it? 80 something, or 70 something, all together, you’re sending that off to Ukraine all of a sudden that makes them a winner? If you say so. Watchdog on wallstreet .com.
