{"id":1457039,"date":"2022-04-28T14:59:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T18:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1457039"},"modified":"2022-04-28T14:59:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T18:59:47","slug":"biden-presses-congress-for-33-billion-more-in-ukraine-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-presses-congress-for-33-billion-more-in-ukraine-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Presses Congress For $33 Billion More In Ukraine Aid"},"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\">20<\/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-presses-congress-for-33-billion-more-in-ukraine-aid%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=1457039&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<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>President Joe Biden is pushing Congress for $33 billion more to help Ukraine, marking a significant increase compared to past packages.<\/p>\n<p>The $33 billion will go towards \u201csecurity, economic, and humanitarian aid,\u201d according to a fact sheet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/04\/28\/fact-sheet-white-house-calls-on-congress-to-provide-additional-support-for-ukraine\/\">provided<\/a> by the White House. Biden declared the bill necessary \u201cto support Ukraine in this fight for freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cost of this fight is not cheap, but caving to aggression is going to be more costly if we allow it to happen,\u201d the president added during remarks Thursday morning. \u201cWe either back Ukrainian people as they defend their country, or we stand by as the Russians continue their atrocities in Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The request is more than double what Congress approved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/10\/world\/europe\/congress-approves-13-6-billion-in-emergency-aid-for-ukraine.html\">earlier<\/a> in the year. That package, intended for military and humanitarian aid, sat at $13.6 billion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The $33 billion ask includes $20.4 billion set aside for military and security help, the White House noted. In all, the latest package would help give Ukraine more weapons to aid in their fight against <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/08\/joe-biden-russia-ukraine-sanctions-no-fly-zone-poll\/\">Russia<\/a> as well as things like food, medicine and shelter for its <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/21\/joe-biden-administration-ukrainian-refugee-sponsorship-program-southern-border\/\">citizens<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis includes $5 billion in additional drawdown authority, $6 billion for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, and $4 billion for the State Department\u2019s Foreign Military Financing program,\u201d according to the White House fact sheet. \u201cThese resources will put urgently needed equipment into the hands of Ukraine\u2019s military and police, as well as help NATO deter and defend against Russian aggression over the long-term.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden also put forth a proposal to further <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/24\/joe-biden-sanctions-russia-invasion-ukraine\/\">target<\/a> \u201csanctioned individuals related to Russian actions in Ukraine,\u201d the White House said. This proposal includes the idea of using money from Russian oligarch\u2019s seized assets to help Ukraine. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/12\/joe-biden-vladimir-putin-committing-genocide-ukraine\/\">(RELATED:\u00a0Biden Says Putin Committing \u2018Genocide\u2019 In Ukraine)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden is pushing Congress for $33 billion more to help Ukraine, marking a significant increase compared to past packages.The $33 billion will go towards \u201csecurity, economic,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":1480883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1457039","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\/1457039","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\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}