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It's a fucking shame that mothers can't find baby formula but we're shuffling billions to corrupt governments.
mell saysIt's a fucking shame that mothers can't find baby formula but we're shuffling billions to corrupt governments.
What does formula shortage have to do with billions? Spending $40B on baby formula won't bring more baby formula because FDA restricts imports and some US capacity went offline due to contamination. It's a PHYSICAL SHORTAGE, having nothing to do with money. And if FDA didn't restrict imports there would be plenty of baby formula to go around (imported from Europe, for example) without any need to spend $40B on it.
Some low-IQ cunt lumped these things together and all "conservatives" supposedly "thinking for themselves" are reposting this shit over and over again.
mell sayshttps://m.theepochtimes.com/sen-paul-delays-vote-on-40-billion-ukraine-package-calls-for-spending-oversight_4464576.html?source=patrick.net&utm_source=share-btn-copylink
Nothing wrong with oversight.
Even by Washington standards, the Biden Administration’s recent request for $33 billion for military aid to Ukraine was shocking. Surely a coalition of antiwar progressives and budget-hawk Republicans would oppose the dangerous and expensive involvement of the US in the Russia/Ukraine conflict? No! Not only did Congress not object: they added nearly seven billion MORE dollars to the package!
In the end, not a single House Democrat voted against further US involvement in the war, and just 57 Republicans said “no” to funding yet another undeclared war.
On the Senate side, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) both demanded immediate passage of the huge giveaway to Ukraine. That’s Washington’s bipartisanship for you.
Then the junior Senator from Kentucky came to the Senate Floor and did the unthinkable in Washington: he delayed the vote.
“My oath of office is to the national security of the United States of America,” Sen. Rand Paul said. “We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” He went on to point out that the US has spent nearly as much on Ukraine’s military as the entire military budget of Russia and that the US government has sent more military money to Ukraine than it spent in the entire first year of the US war in Afghanistan.
Sen. Paul put the package into perspective: this massive giveaway to Ukraine equals nearly the entire yearly budget of the US State Department and is larger than the budget of the Department of Homeland Security!
Schumer was furious with Paul, accusing him of “preventing swift passage of Ukraine aid because he wants to add at the last minute his own changes directly into the bill.”
What was he trying to add to the bill? In his own words, “All I requested is an amendment to be included in the final bill that allows for the Inspector General to oversee how funds are spent.”
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