| shavenferret said: Impending shutdown of funding to Ukraine......... so Biden really wants to help but he may not be able to help as much. Perhaps if Ukraine was able to gain greater political standing with say being included into the E.U. it would be able to get more help. I also hope that even if cutting off funding, that the USA could still give valuable intel to Ukraine. Isn't direction of the military controlled by the president? Then if intel is a part of that then even the damn republicans won't be able to stop it until the next president comes in. |
The Republicans fucking around is a bit concerning but I don't believe we're quite there yet. There is still a couple billion left in the PDA (I think around $2bn) for Biden to use which was approved last year, I know House removed Ukraine funding from the main budget bill but there is talk that the Ukraine funding will be voted on in separate budget bills. The most recent of which was passed by a vote of 311-117 for $300m in Ukraine funding. However if Government shuts-down which could be likely and Ukraine doesn't get a larger bill passed within the next 45 days then that would be bad. These next 45 days will be crucial for America's support to Ukraine.
I'm assuming intel would be covered by NATO.
If worst comes to worst, there is still Lend-Lease, it has not been used thus far but it was approved already and precisely for a scenario like this, I do not believe Biden needs Congressional approval to send things via Lend-Lease as it has already been passed specifically for Ukraine. The entire purpose of Lend-Lease is to skip bureaucracy (Congress) and send weapons quicker, subject to the approval of the President. The only reason it hasn't been used yet is because it's a loan and Ukraine obviously isn't in a good place to start owing people billions and they won't be for a very long time, America doesn't want to cripple Ukraine with debt obviously, so it's not ideal but still an option.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 05 October 2023
