“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.”
Even by Washington standards, the Biden Administration's recent request for $33 billion for military aid to Ukraine was shocking.
On the Senate side, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell both demanded immediate passage of the huge giveaway to Ukraine.
"We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy." He went on to point out that the US has spent nearly as much on Ukraine's military as the entire military budget of Russia and that the US government has sent more military money to Ukraine than it spent in the entire first year of the US war in Afghanistan.
Sen. Paul put the package into perspective: this massive giveaway to Ukraine equals nearly the entire yearly budget of the US State Department and is larger than the budget of the Department of Homeland Security!
He wanted at least a bit of oversight on the nearly $50 billion in total that Washington has sent to what Transparency International deems one of the most corrupt countries on earth.
In its final report on the 20 year Afghanistan war, SIGAR reviewed approximately $63 billion of the total $134 billion appropriated to Afghanistan and found that nearly $19 billion of the amount was lost to waste, fraud, and abuse.
Maybe that's why they were so furious that Sen. Paul proposed that we perhaps keep track of this $40 billion to make sure it's not wasted: Washington doesn't want to know.
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