Under What Conditions Should the USA Send More Money to Ukraine?

President Joe Biden asked Congress to pass a supplemental spending bill costing US taxpayers $106 billion. Out of that amount, $61 billion would go to Ukraine, about $30 billion to Israel, and the remaining $15 going to secure the southern US border.

Republicans in both the Senate and the House of Representatives are standing united against passing the bill, and they have a couple of reasons for doing so. Chris Enloe wrote the following in his article published in The Blaze. 

First, they have asked for more resources to address the border crisis, which is, after all, a domestic issue that directly impacts Americans. Second, they have asked the Biden administration to provide a clear strategic plan that outlines how Ukraine will defeat Russia and explain why taxpayers should fund that campaign.

Enloe reported that Mike Johnson (R-La.) said that he has been asking the White House for clarity since he became Speaker of the House.

We need clear articulation of the strategy to allow Ukraine to win. Thus far, their responses have been insufficient. They have not provided us the clarity and the details that we requested over and over.

What the Biden administration seems to be asking for is billions of additional dollars with no appropriate oversight, no clear strategy to win, and none of the answers that I think the American people are owed.

Apparently, Biden or someone in his administration called for help because Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was campaigning on Capitol Hill this week to make his case for more funding for Ukraine. According to Enloe, Zelensky claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin will win the war if the US does not give him more money.

Rob Bleury published in his article at The Daily Signal that Congressional conservatives in both the Senate and the House are trying to attach the Secure the Border Act (HR 2) to Biden’s requested funding. Conservatives want to address the worsening crisis at the southern border. Bleury reported that Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) said, “We cannot turn a blind eye to the perilous invitation the Biden White House continues to freely give out to break our immigration laws.

To confront the border crisis, conservatives in the House have HR2 “Secure the Border Act.” On his part, “Cruz introduced an amendment to the supplemental spending bill that mirrors the Secure the Border Act.” Cruz said that HR2 is the “most comprehensive border security legislation in decades.” All but two Republicans voted in favor of HR2 when the bill passed the House with a vote of 219-213.

You can be sure that the Biden administration opposes the Secure the Border Act, saying in May that the bill would make “elements of our immigration system worse.” According to Bleury, Cruz said that his amendment “would provide physical and technological border improvements, manpower assistance to Border Patrol and ICE Enforcement Removal Operations, and protection to families seeking entry at the border as well as unaccompanied alien children.”

Bluey then quoted Speaker Johnson reiterating his opposition to funding Ukraine war without pairing it with the Secure the Border Act.

These are our conditions because these are the conditions of the American people…. And we are resolute on that. It is not the House’s issue right now. The issue is with the White House and the Sente, and I implore them to do their job because the time is urgent and we do want to do the right thing.

House Republicans may want to “do the right thing,” but time is running out. Congress is due to start their holiday recess next week and may not pass anything before the recess. Increasing numbers of Americans are supporting the conservative cause, and they have numerous reasons for doing so.

Some of those reasons are as follow: (1) Approximately nine million people have invaded America since Biden became President of the United States. (2) Americans do not want to fund the retirements of people in Ukraine when they cannot afford to fund their own retirement. (3) Americans want their tax dollars to go to make America a stronger nation FIRST and then use excess funds to help other nations. (4) Due to inflation, Americans have less money to pay for the needs of their own families and are putting increasing amounts of money on credit cards.