{"id":54165,"date":"2024-03-19T12:17:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T16:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=54165"},"modified":"2024-03-19T12:17:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T16:17:49","slug":"does-anyone-know-where-our-money-is-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=54165","title":{"rendered":"Does Anyone Know Where Our Money Is Going?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday, American Greatness<\/a> posted an article titled:<\/p>\n

GAO: \u2018Unclear\u2019 if Pentagon Tracking Reports of Misused Aid in Ukraine<\/h1>\n

I don’t know about you, but that headline does not give me the warm fuzzies.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

While the Pentagon has assured Congress that no U.S. military equipment sent to Ukraine has been diverted, stolen, or otherwise misappropriated,\u00a0a new report<\/a>\u00a0from the Government Accountability Office could not determine if the Department of Defense was tracking allegations of misuse two years into the conflict.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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\u201cIf you never look, you will never find it,\u201d a source familiar with how the report was compiled said of the worst-case possibility that aid was being misappropriated.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The report comes as President Biden struggles to keep the supply lines open to Ukraine. Although a majority of Congress supports sending further aid to help hold back the Russian onslaught, and the Senate passed a bipartisan aid package late last month, House Republicans have yet to approve the latest round of now-stalled military assistance.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The United States remains the leading supplier of munitions and other aid to Ukraine, providing more than $42 billion in assistance since Russia\u2019s invasion. Much of it has come through the Presidential Drawdown Authority, which allows the president to transfer equipment from American stores directly to allies. The annual amount was limited by law to $100 million a year until Congress lifted the cap to $14.5 billion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The sheer tonnage of supplies and the speed of its shipment, according to the GAO report, has left the Pentagon without \u201cquality data\u201d to assess its delivery. Ensuring munitions and materiel arrive in the right hands has led to unprecedented challenges on top of the existing chaos of war. Most officials were evacuated from Ukraine long ago, for instance, and those who remain are restricted from leaving Kyiv to ensure delivery of shipments before it is used or destroyed on the battlefield.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

The GAO included in their report eight separate recommended reforms, which the DoD consented to partly or entirely. In a letter from Laura Cooper, deputy assistant secretary of defense, that was included in the report, the DoD declined a recommendation to require which allegations of misuse should be recorded and tracked. According to Cooper, the DoD already has sufficient regulations in place.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This will do little to pacify Republicans eager to rein in the war funding.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Biden administration has spent two years deceiving the American people, claiming they\u2019ve closely tracked the military material we\u2019ve sent to Ukraine. The GAO\u2019s report not only proves them wrong, it references allegations that U.S. military equipment ended up in the hands of Russian military forces,\u201d Sen. JD Vance, an Ohio Republican and former U.S. Marine, told RCP.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a major problem. I plan to immediately introduce legislation to hold the Biden administration accountable for these errors,\u201d Vance added.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We need a few people in Congress with the backbone to put an end to this ridiculousness–either account for the spending or stop the spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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