{"id":1385008,"date":"2022-03-16T19:08:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T23:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1385008"},"modified":"2022-03-16T19:09:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T23:09:01","slug":"biden-sending-billions-to-protect-ukraines-borders-after-opposing-trumps-15b-for-u-s-border-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-sending-billions-to-protect-ukraines-borders-after-opposing-trumps-15b-for-u-s-border-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Sending Billions to Protect Ukraine&#039;s Borders After Opposing Trump&#039;s $15B for U.S. Border Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-sending-billions-to-protect-ukraines-borders-after-opposing-trumps-15b-for-u-s-border-wall%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1385008&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">While sending nearly $14 billion to help Ukraine in its conflict with Russia, President Joe Biden fiercely opposed a similar amount for a border wall along the United States-Mexico border to stem illegal immigration and drug trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/16\/joe-biden-sending-stingers-drones-machine-guns-grenade-launchers-and-20-million-rounds-of-ammo-to-ukraine\/\">announced<\/a> more American taxpayer money would be going toward protecting Ukraine\u2019s borders. Those funds will go to drones,\u00a0grenade launchers, pistols, rifles, machine guns, shotguns, and ammunition, among other things.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>With the help of Republicans and Democrats in Congress, Biden is sending nearly $14 billion in aid to Ukraine in addition to about $350 million in military assistance. Biden had initially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/03\/15\/politics\/biden-military-assistance-ukraine\/index.html\">asked<\/a> for about $10 billion to help Ukraine.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>On the U.S.-Mexico border, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/16\/republicans-democrats-focus-on-ukraines-borders-as-u-s-borders-remain-porous-under-biden\/\">remains<\/a> porous, with skyrocketing illegal immigration, Biden has been opposed to continuing the construction of a border wall.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019 and 2020, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/2wiRa\">campaigned<\/a> against former President Trump\u2019s wall construction project which had cost about $15 billion \u2014 only a billion more than what Biden is now spending to protect Ukraine\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will not be another foot of wall constructed on my administration,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/08\/05\/899266045\/biden-would-end-border-wall-construction-but-wont-tear-down-trump-s-additions\">said<\/a> in August 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 460 miles of border wall were constructed by the Trump administration, most in places where old barriers were replaced with tall, new steel bollard fencing. Construction was completely halted when Biden took office.<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News reported, Biden has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/03\/biden-wants-10b-to-protect-ukraines-border-after-spending-6m-every-day-to-not-build-u-s-mexico-border-wall\/\">spent<\/a> about $6 million every day to not build the border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. The majority of the nearly 2,000-mile border remains open, with no barriers.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JxhnBxnder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While sending nearly $14 billion to help Ukraine in its conflict with Russia, President Joe Biden fiercely opposed a similar amount for a border wall along the United States-Mexico border<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1385008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}