{"id":58300,"date":"2025-02-05T12:23:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T17:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=58300"},"modified":"2025-02-05T12:23:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T17:23:39","slug":"where-did-the-money-go-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=58300","title":{"rendered":"Where Did The Money Go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/matt-margolis\/2025\/02\/03\/scandal-nearly-100-billion-in-ukraine-aid-is-missing-n4936619\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PJ Media<\/a> posted an article about all of the money flowing into Ukraine from American taxpayers. It seems that nearly $100 billion is missing. This might be worth looking into.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Despite the alleged critical nature of this aid, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claims that Ukraine has only seen about $76 billion in tangible aid even though the Biden administration authorized around $175 billion to support his war-torn nation.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Zelenskyy&#8217;s recent remarks regarding U.S. aid raise eyebrows and call into question where the massive sums of money supposedly allocated to Ukraine have actually gone. This discrepancy should make anyone sit up and take notice.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cWhen I hear\u2014both in the past and even now\u2014from the U.S. that America has provided Ukraine with hundreds of billions, as the president of a nation at war, I can tell you \u2013 we\u2019ve received more than $75 billion,\u201d Zelenskyy <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/eng\/news\/2025\/02\/2\/7496431\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">said<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019re talking about tangible things because this aid didn\u2019t come as cash but rather as weapons, which amounted to about $70 billion.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>It gets worse.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cBut when it\u2019s said that Ukraine received $200 billion to support the army during the war \u2013 that\u2019s not true. I don\u2019t know where all that money went,\u201d Zelenskyy said. \u201cPerhaps it\u2019s true on paper with hundreds of different programmes \u2013 I won\u2019t argue, and we\u2019re immensely grateful for everything. But in reality, we received about $76 billion. It\u2019s significant aid, but it\u2019s not $200 billion.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article notes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Zelenskyy mused that perhaps some of the missing funds have been funneled into humanitarian programs he barely knows about. \u201cPerhaps the U.S. President\u2019s administration will audit these programmes and find additional billions.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>I\u2019m not particularly confident in this. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/featured_data\/ukraine-aid-breaking-down-175-billion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">analysis<\/a> from the American Enterprise Institute last year found that nearly 70% of U.S. aid intended for Ukraine actually funneled back into domestic spending, not to the front lines in Ukraine. Ask yourself why this would happen that way. Was it so the Biden administration could redirect money to wherever it wanted without congressional oversight?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>It does feel eerily reminiscent of the Obama administration\u2019s slush fund scandal, where his DOJ allowed corporate settlements to direct funds to left-wing non-profits and organizations, effectively sidestepping congressional oversight. The Trump administration put an end to this practice to enhance accountability in the use of taxpayer dollars, only for Biden to reinstate it on his first day in office.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s do an audit on all of the money sent to Ukraine. The results might be very interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, PJ Media posted an article about all of the money flowing into Ukraine from American taxpayers. It seems that nearly $100 billion is missing. This might be worth looking into. The article reports: Despite the alleged critical nature &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=58300\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15280,2375,5277,15069],"class_list":["post-58300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aid-to-ukraine","tag-audit","tag-pj-media","tag-ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelensky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58301,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58300\/revisions\/58301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}