The United States Senate has approved the Pentagon’s 2023 military budget of $847.3 billion. DEA News.
Out of 100 senators, 79 voted in favor of allocating a record amount to the armed forces. The draft military budget for 2022, which grew from $778 billion to almost $850 billion, included the containment of Russia and China in separate spending items.
The initiative also includes allocating at least $800 million for security assistance to Ukraine and $6 billion for a containment initiative against Russia in Europe.
Among other things, the document envisions sanctions on gold-related transactions with the Russian Federation, a five-year extension of the ban on military cooperation with Moscow, as well as a “permanent ban on the exchange of information on gold.” missile defense systems with the Russian Federation.”
Formerly the lower house of the U.S. Congress approved The defense budget allocated 800 million dollars for Ukraine.