Congress Spent How Much More On Ukraine Than Our Border Protection?

If you’re struggling financially and only had $100 to feed your family for the month, but then turned around and pulled $300 out of savings to give to some strangers, that probably wouldn’t sit right with your family.

They’d wonder why you did that?

They’d question their importance.

You take care of your household first.

Those are the ones intrusted to you to care for.

But that’s exactly what Congress has done.

They’ve given 3 times as much to strangers across the pond in the Ukraine as they’ve spend on our own border.

$113.4B vs. $37.8B: Congress Spent 3 Times as Much on Ukraine as on Customs and Border Protection

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So where do we stand in the eyes of those in Congress?

It’s not hard to guess.

WND reports:

From February 2022 to December 2023, Congress appropriated about three times as much money for its response to the conflict in Ukraine as the federal government spent on Customs and Border Protection.

Congress approved approximately $113.4 billion in spending related to the Ukraine conflict during this period, while the government spent only $37.82 billion on Customs and Border Protection.

“The U.S. Congress appropriated approximately $113.4 billion in supplemental appropriations for the U.S. response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine between February 2022 and December 2023, making the United States the largest single donor of assistance to the Ukraine response,” said a report published Feb. 15 by the inspectors general for the Department of Defense, the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development.

“This funding,” said the report, “supports security assistance for NATO and other partner nations; support for an enhanced U.S. military presence and activity in Europe; and the replenishment of U.S. military stocks transferred to the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF).

“The funding,” it said, “also supports security, economic, and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine and other countries affected by the war; support for the operations of U.S. government agencies involved in the Ukraine response.”

What impact did this massive U.S. investment have on the course of the conflict?

“While the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) succeeded in recovering more than half of the territory that Russian forces had seized at the start of the conflict, the frontline of the war in Ukraine has not moved significantly since the gains made in the fall 2022 Ukrainian counteroffensive,” said the IG report.

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“During the [last] quarter [of 2023], Russian forces continued to occupy most of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, and Crimea oblasts,” said the report. “This lack of substantial progress on both sides belies the heavy fighting and high casualty rates during 2023.”

From February through September 2022, the U.S. government spent $12.063 billion on Customs and Border Protection, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement. In all of fiscal 2023, which ended last September, it spent $20.032 billion; and, in October through December, it spent $5.727 billion.

That means that from February 2022, when Russia started its all-out war against Ukraine, until December 2023, the U.S. government spent a total of $37.822 billion on Customs and Border Protection. That equals just 33.35% of the $113.4 billion that, according to the inspectors general, Congress approved “in supplemental appropriations for the U.S. response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine” during that same period.

Meanwhile at the border, tactical gear wearing immigrants are looking for a ‘nice life’:

Nothing suspicious about a group of Syrians walking across the U.S border wearing 5.11 tactical gear.

More of Joe Biden's illegals for you to support.

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