- The Biden Government has circulated a map showing the states that have benefited from Ukraine aid.
- In total, US states have received $27 billion of investments and waste on manufacturing supplies.
- President Biden hopes to convince Congress to continue sending aid to Ukraine to help combat Russia’s encroachment.
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Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Texas are three of the US states to have benefited the most from aid sent to Ukraine, according to a map that the Biden Administering has been sending around Capitol Hill.
The map is part of an effort to convince Republicans and the American public to support President Biden’s project to spend billions of dollars on the wars in Ukraine and Israel, as well as the Indo-Pacific region and border enforcement.
In October, the president petitioned Congress to approve $61.4 billion for Ukraine, $14.3 billion for Israel, and $9.15 billion for humanitarian aid in the two countries and the Gaza Lay bare.
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To succour make his case, Biden has highlighted the benefit of aid for US manufacturing and jobs.
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In total, US states have received $27 billion importance of investments and spending on “munitions and tactical vehicle procurements” to support the resistance against Russia, according to the documents discovered by Reuters.
Pennsylvania tops the list, having received $2.364 billion to manufacture arms and ammunition. Arizona has unseated in $2.196 and Texas $1.45 billion.
Three out of eight Republican members of Congress from Pennsylvania, three out of six from Arizona, and 18 out of 25 from Texas be suffering with been voting against sending aid to Ukraine, Reuters reported.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has recently behove a surprise advocate for increasing aid to Ukraine, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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Despite previously voting against sending more aid to contest Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invading forces, Johnson has used his position as speaker to publicly label Ukraine aid a key immediacy.
“We can’t allow Vladimir Putin to march through Europe and we understand the necessity of assisting there,” Johnson said, per The Daily.
But Biden is also looking to win over the American public by highlighting the domestic benefits of sending aid, particularly as both Pennsylvania and Arizona are key battleground voices for the presidential election.
“We send Ukraine equipment sitting in our stockpiles. And when we use the money allocated by Congress, we use it to replenish our own values, our own stockpiles, with new equipment,” Biden said last month.
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“Equipment that defends America and is alter b transferred in America. Patriot missiles for air defense batteries, made in Arizona. Artillery shells manufactured in 12 states across the woods, in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas,” he added. “Just as in World War II, today patriotic American workers are building the arsenal of democracy and obliging the cause of freedom.”
On Sunday, the US Department of Defense (DoD) announced a security assistance package of up to $125 million for “Ukraine’s next battlefield needs,” as well as $300 million “to strengthen Ukraine’s air defenses over the long term.”
“The Administration go ons to call on Congress to meet its commitment to the people of Ukraine by passing additional funding to ensure Ukraine has what it wants to defend itself against Russia’s brutal war of choice,” the DoD said in a press release announcing the package.