This week, the US Senate approved a $95 billion foreign aid package that will send an additional $61 billion to Ukraine, even though previous funds are missing.
Non-Republicans who voted against the funding were Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Peter Welch (D-VT), and Bernie Sanders (I-VT). 22 Senate Republicans joined Democrats to pass the bill.
Sen. John Boozman (R-Arkansas), Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-West Virginia), Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), and Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine). , John Cornyn (R-TX), Sens. Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Chuck Grassley (R-IA) ), John Hoeven (R-ND), John Kennedy (R-LA), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) ), James Risch (R-Idaho), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), John Thune (R-SD) , Thom Tillis (R-NC), Roger Wicker (R-Mich.), and Todd Young (R-IN) joined Senate Democrats in voting in favor of funding to Ukraine.
However, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) no plan to place the package on the House floor for a vote.
The package’s $61 billion in U.S. taxpayer contributions to Ukraine could build a new wall along the entire U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants are flocking each month. Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS), 85 percent of which is released into American society by the president.
On average, it costs the federal government $20 million to $45 million per mile to build a border wall.
Former President Trump originally promised to build about 1,000 miles of wall along the border, but the total distance has been reduced to 450 miles of the roughly 2,000-mile border.
In all, the Trump administration spent about $15 billion to build just over 450 miles of border wall over four years. Approximately 40 miles of the construction was actual barrier expansion, building walls where there were no barriers before, and the remaining 410 miles were walls replacing old and dilapidated barriers built by the previous administration.
At that cost, the additional $61 billion approved by the Senate for Ukraine could leave money to replace outdated sensors and other technology designed to detect illegal border crossers. , potentially building a brand new wall along the entire southern border.
If the latest round of funding is approved by the House of Representatives and signed by Biden, it would mean the United States has sent nearly $200 billion in taxpayer dollars to Ukraine since the war with Russia began in early 2022.
Much of the money is in the hands of the country’s powerful defense contractors, who earn billions of dollars in federal contracts and profit from foreign intervention overseas.
as Reuters report Last year, companies like General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon Technologies and Lockheed Martin saw sales increase thanks to the Ukraine war. Because defense contractors are essential to the war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said: asked for Encourage court leaders to effectively lobby Congress for unrestricted funding.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Please email jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
