WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s top budget official warned in stark terms Friday about the rapidly diminishing time that lawmakers have to replenish U.S. aid for Ukraine, as the fate of that money to Kyiv remains tied up in negotiations over immigration where a deal has so far been out of reach.
Shalanda Young, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, stressed that there is no avenue to help Ukraine aside from Congress approving additional funding to help Kyiv as it fends off Russia in a war that is now nearly two years old. While the Pentagon has some limited authority to help Kyiv absent new funding from Capitol Hill, “that is not going to get big tranches of equipment into Ukraine,” Young said Friday.
How did our attention span get so short? The Russian invasion of Ukraine will never stop being a disaster for the people of Ukraine, the people of Russia, or the stability of civilization. It’s no less urgent now than it was at the start of the war, but lawmakers act as though it’s business as usual. Sad to see.
Attention span has nothing to do with it. One of our political parties (Republicans via PACs like the NRA) has relied on Russia for a ton of funding for about 20 years.
Ukraine has impacted that party’s fundraising making the war a positional issue, especially since the party is dying with Boomers.
Boomers should know better than anyone the dangers of Russia seeking unchecked power.
Here’s some food for thought:
https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2022/02/24/in-2012-mitt-romney-was-mocked-for-seeing-russia-as-a-threat-he-didnt-forget/
Israel comes first.
It always comes first.