🇺🇸 Today, United States national debt reached an all-time high of $35 trillion.
Also today, the President Biden and Kamala Harris administration sent another $1.7 billion of taxpayer funds to Ukraine for its war against Russia. pic.twitter.com/p3kL8N1bZg
— BRICS News (@BRICSinfo) July 29, 2024
The Congress does the big tens of billions of dollar packages for the Ukraine.
But then the government just randomly sends them “top offs” as needed. Sometimes these overlap with the packages the Congress voted on and sometimes they just appear from nowhere.
The Pentagon announced $1.7 billion in new military assistance for Ukraine on Monday, including missiles, ammunition and anti-tank weapons to counter Russia’s invasion.
The package includes $200 million in immediate assistance drawn from existing weapons and equipment stockpiles within the Department of Defense and a $1.5 billion long-term commitment from Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) funds.
The firepower heading Ukraine’s way includes surface-to-air missiles; short- and medium-range air defense munitions; RIM-7 missiles for air defense; electronic warfare equipment; High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) rockets; artillery and mortar rounds; Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wire-Guided (TOW) missiles; and Javelin and AT-4 anti-tank weapons, among other pieces of equipment.
The latest package represents the 62nd drawdown of military equipment for Ukraine authorized by President Biden and the 20th tranche distributed under USAI, according to the Pentagon.
Sixty-two is not a small number.
No one even knows the total amount that has been sent to the Ukraine.
I am deeply grateful to @POTUS Joe Biden, Congress and its both parties, and the entire American people for today’s announcement of two US military aid packages totaling $1.7 billion.
They include critical ammunition, including air defense ammunition, electronic warfare…
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) July 29, 2024