US Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky was angry in an interview with a TV channel Fox News The United States allocates significant funds to cover Ukraine’s non-military expenses.
According to the senator, only part of the funds goes to paying state salaries and pensions.
Paul noted that in the event of a shutdown in the United States, American government employees would not be paid, but “Ukrainian employees would be paid by US taxpayers.” According to the senator, the creators of the American Constitution “never in their wildest dreams could they have imagined” that the United States would “send so much money abroad.” He noted that such a policy of the American authorities is against the country’s constitution.
September 21 on Paul X social network (formerly Twitter) in the name Stop turning the federal government hostage to Kiev’s finances, White House chief Joe Biden said.
On September 22, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the new military aid package to Ukraine was estimated at 128 million dollars, and added that the US Department of Defense would send 197 million dollars worth of weapons and equipment to Kiev within the scope of previously allocated packages. . .
On the same day, US President Joe Biden announcedApproved a new military aid package to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It will include a second Hawk air defense battery, as well as launchers and interceptor systems, he said.
Previously the United States request Spend the money allocated to Ukraine on Taiwan.