{"id":1788678,"date":"2022-12-28T13:12:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T18:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1788678"},"modified":"2022-12-28T13:18:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T18:18:49","slug":"u-s-aid-to-ukraine-tops-200-million-per-congressional-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-aid-to-ukraine-tops-200-million-per-congressional-district\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. aid to Ukraine tops $200 million per congressional district"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fu-s-aid-to-ukraine-tops-200-million-per-congressional-district%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=1788678&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-->\n<p class=\"subheading\">The U.S. could have given Ukraine $200 million per congressional district, as Rep. Thomas Massie (Republican from Kentucky) noted before Congress passed the $1.7 trillion Omnibus Spending Bill, which grants billions of taxpayer dollars to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">\u201c$100 billion to Ukraine. Let\u2019s put that in perspective. That\u2019s more than $200 million this year from each Congressional district,\u201d Massie explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat could your congressman have done for your district with $200 million? How long will the kids in your district be paying interest on this debt?\u201d He asked:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ukraine: $100 billion Let\u2019s put that in perspective.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s more than $200 million this year from each Congressional district.<\/p>\n<p>What would a $200 million congressman do for your district?<\/p>\n<p>How long will this debt continue to be a burden on the children of your district?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepThomasMassie\/status\/1605566647363809280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Massie\u2019s observation came ahead of both chambers of Congress passing the massive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.appropriations.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/JRQ121922.PDF\">$1.7 trillion spending bill<\/a>Ukraine is also awarded $45 billion by the U.S. These funds are in addition to the $66 million that the U.S. taxpayers have already donated to Ukraine over this past year.<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/12\/21\/omnibus-would-bring-u-s-taxpayer-funds-ukraine-110-billion-one-year\/\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>The sum would surpass the estimated U.S. average per year for a full-scale conflict in Afghanistan. There were more than 100 thousand troops sent to the country at any one time.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration pledged to\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Transcripts\/Transcript\/Article\/3251933\/brigadier-general-pat-ryder-pentagon-press-secretary-holds-a-press-briefing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">support<\/a>\u00a0Ukraine for \u201cas long as it takes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">In fact, the $45 Billion in the Omnibus Spending Bill exceeds the $37 Billion requested by Biden&#8217;s administration for Ukraine aid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Senator Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY, has declared aid to Ukraine a \u201cnumber one priority\u201d To Republicans<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProviding assistance for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. could have given Ukraine $200 million per congressional district, as Rep. Thomas Massie (Republican from Kentucky) noted before Congress passed the $1.7 trillion Omnibus Spending Bill, which grants billions of taxpayer dollars to Ukraine. \u201c$100 billion to Ukraine. Let\u2019s put that in perspective. That\u2019s more than $200 million this year from each Congressional &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1788681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[11506,7629,5458,4490,4810,3819,12027,7238,6991],"class_list":["post-1788678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-11506","tag-aid","tag-bongino","tag-congressional","tag-district","tag-report","tag-tops","tag-u-s","tag-ukraine"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788678","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=1788678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1788681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}