Here’s Everything Wrong With Congress’s Plan To Give Zelensky Cash For Christmas

 Volodymyr Zelensky is slated to receive a hero's welcome in the U.S. capital today, just as Congress is poised to award him another $45 billion in its mammoth inflationary spending bill. You wouldn't know it from corporate media coverage, but that's problematic.

Americans Simply Don't Approve

• Spending taxpayer dollars on a proxy war in Eastern Europe is not high on the priority list for Republican or Democrat voters
• If Americans overwhelmingly reject going to war with Russia on behalf of Ukraine, which polling since the beginning of the conflict has said they do, Congress shouldn't be spending money that indicates the U.S. is willing to prolong a war by whatever means necessary

Throwing Dollars at Ukraine Escalates Rather than Ends the War

• Nearly half of Americans want their government to urge Ukraine to negotiate a peace settlement. Instead, the Swamp extends Ukraine's ability to fight with more funds, weapons, and verbal support.
• Money for Zelensky solidifies U.S. involvement in a war that Congress never voted to declare.

Cash for Ukraine Takes Away from Necessary U.S. Spending

• While Congress funnels tens of billions of dollars to protect the border of a foreign country, our country's border is virtually nonexistent
• Thousands of illegal border crossers pour into the southern United States every day.
• Yet Congress, specifically Senate Republicans, repeatedly refuse to leverage their influence for funding to secure our border

Funding an Overseas War When Americans Struggle to Afford Basics Is the Wrong Choice

• While Congress ships taxpayer dollars overseas, Americans can't afford to live in the increasingly expensive homeland
• As retirement accounts dip into the negative, 1 in 4 U.S. parents reports they couldn't cover basic needs such as food, shelter, and care for their families in 2022

Zelensky’s Handout Is Part of a Destructive Spending Package

• More than $45 billion of the more than $70 billion bill is part of a sweeping, inflationary omnibus bill that would fulfill Democrats’ spending wishes before the newly elected Republican House is sworn in.

There Are Bigger Foreign Policy Problems Than Ukraine

• China, our nation's biggest threat, has been taking advantage of the Russia-Ukraine war.

Ukraine Is Not a Top Strategic U.S. Security Interest

• Spending endless money on an indefinite war in Ukraine does nothing for Americans but create a national security threat.

The Biden Admin Is Incapable of Handling Problems

• Every problem the Biden administration touches turns into an even bigger disaster.

Ukraine Isn't the Most Honest Country

• Zelensky's Ukraine is filled with anti-democratic practices and principles: a war on the free press, money-grabbing bureaucrats, and a broken justice system
• Congress granting a corrupt regime funds with little to no oversight doesn't just undermine war hawks' reasoning for supporting Ukraine. It could also quickly result in a "Taliban inherits American weaponry" situation.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/12/21/heres-everything-wrong-with-congresss-plan-to-give-zelensky-cash-for-christmas/