The House has passed a Ukraine aid bill yesterday that plans to spend $1.5 trillion.
Congressional leaders reached a bipartisan deal early Wednesday morning providing over $13 billion to assist Ukraine and European allies. In addition, the bill planned to spend billions more to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, but Republicans were quick to say no to that. However, even if not all the planned spending is going to happen, what will be spent should still be carefully watched.
“Here’s the thing, there’s $5 trillion of the past COVID stimulus bill that is still unaccounted for,” says GOP strategist Matt Locke. “This isn’t more money in COVID, this is more money laundered into their districts that come back to them.”
Locke says that this plan looks less like a budget and more like an omnibus bill, covering all bases, even issues previously addressed like COVID, to get more money into the pile.
“We’re not actually doing a budget anymore because there would be some accountability,” Locke says. “Both parties are criminal and devious about the way they’re doing the budget.”
Matt Locke joins The Marc Cox Morning Show to break down the Ukraine aid bill, as well as the Russian oil sanctions and rising gas prices.
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