US Congress passed $886 billion defense policy bill void of most GOP culture-war demands

🔶️ Passage of the compromise legislation was a rebuke of hard-line House conservatives who had targeted #Pentagon policies on abortion, diversity and LGBTQ+ rights

🔶️ The compromise bill approved Thursday is void of nearly all of the hard right’s culture-war provisions — including a measure that would have barred the Defense Department from reimbursing the travel costs of U.S. service members who travel out of state to obtain an abortion. And several members of the far-right House Freedom Caucus took to the House floor Thursday morning to assail the bill as a betrayal of conservative values.

#Budget #US #Politics #MoneyForWar

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/12/14/house-defense-bill-ndaa/

House passes defense policy bill, a rebuke of GOP’s far-right fringe

Democrats joined Republicans to pass the $886 billion NDAA after it was stripped of hard-liners’ demands targeting abortion, diversity and LGBTQ+ rights.

123 cargo planes and 7 ships have so far delivered more than 7,000 tons of arms and military equipment to Israel.

#SaveGaza #StopIsrael #moneyforwar #biden
#palestine #Israel #Occupation #Apartheid #Politics #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow

Military cargo plane arrived in Israel on a U.S. plane to cover losses suffered in the ongoing conflict, according to Israeli authorities.

They have money for this.....

#SaveGaza #StopIsrael #MoneyForWar
#palestine #Israel #Occupation #Apartheid #Politics #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the country can 'absolutely' afford another war.

Isn't that just lovely?

#US #Economy #MoneyForWar #NotTheOnion

#Biden just sent $8 to #Israel!

#palestine #moneyforwar #politics

The Associated Press: Pentagon says accounting error provided extra $6.2 billion for Ukraine military aid

They are making a lot of accounting errors with Ukrainian equipment. Wondering how come they never detected any such errors in Afghanistan or Iraq.

I know I am a conspiracy theorist who sees strange behavior in many things these days. But it is really great that #Biden is such an honest person and his administration is so trustworthy that they are correcting themselves left and right.

Wondering who's paycheck is getting cut by these #corrections".

#Pentagon #Ukraine #NotTheOnion #MoneyForWar #Politics

PS. Who wants to bet we are going to have a shit load of movies about Ukraine in the coming days, why not a M.A.S.H. because we already have a live Rambo playing Mr. Z.!
PPS. Sorry had to delete the old one to correct the mistakes #

EU Readies €50 Billion Ukraine Package Ahead of Donor Summit

Cash offered as grants, loans conditional on reform measures
#EU to ask member states for funds for reconstruction plan
The European Union is ready to propose a financial aid package of around €50 billion ($55 billion) to support #Ukraine as the country embarks on a critical #counteroffensive to retake territory lost since #Russia’s invasion more than a year ago.
The proposal from the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, will help finance the Ukrainian government’s current expenditures and pay for urgent reconstruction priorities, according to people familiar with the plan. 

The package, still subject to changes before it’s made public, will be announced Tuesday ahead of a conference this week in London, where donors will discuss how to rebuild the country and Ukrainian officials will seek private sector involvement. 
#Europe #MoneyForWar #UkraineWar
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-20/eu-readies-50-billion-ukraine-package-ahead-of-donor-summit#xj4y7vzkg

EU Readies €50 Billion Ukraine Package Ahead of Donor Summit

The European Union is ready to propose a financial aid package of around €50 billion ($55 billion) to support Ukraine as the country embarks on a critical counteroffensive to retake territory lost since Russia’s invasion more than a year ago.

Pentagon Says Accounting Mistake Frees Up $3 Billion More for #Ukraine

The Biden administration has been under bipartisan pressure to explain how it intended to continue sending

The #Pentagon has significantly reduced its estimate of the value of #weapons it has sent to Ukraine amid intensifying pressure to explain how it intends to keep Ukrainian troops supplied without approaching Congress to replenish its budget before the end of the fiscal year.

The revised accounting frees up $3 billion worth of weapons that could be given to Ukraine from existing stocks, Pentagon and State Department officials told a skeptical audience of congressional staff members on Thursday, some of whom spoke about the change on the condition of anonymity to discuss private briefings from the administration.

#MoneyForWar #Biden #Politics #Russia #UkraineWar

https://web.archive.org/web/20230518183144/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/18/us/politics/ukraine-spending-congress.html

Pentagon Says Accounting Mistake Frees Up $3 Billion More for Ukraine

The Biden administration has been under bipartisan pressure to explain how it intended to continue sending weapons to Ukraine quickly without asking Congress for more money.

Unverified: #Chechen soldiers found a huge amount of cash in foreign currency in a captured Ukrainian military base.
They are inside boxes medical supply.
#ukraine #Russia #UkraineWar #politics #MoneyForWar

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