Massie demands an audit of Ukraine aid
He argues Congress is sending money to Ukraine without being allowed to see where it goes.
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- and with that I'd like to turn it over to my friend from Kentucky thank you larger did a great job of going through
- where what we think all the money is going to but what they say all the money is going to this resolution is about finding out exactly where that money has
- gone the American Support American voters taxpayer support for what we're doing in Ukraine is withering there have
- been 18 to 19 votes on this issue of Ukraine in the last year it's getting hard to count though now because they don't have individual votes on this
- money in the beginning if we were going to Rattle the saber or impose a sanction that actually hurts Americans is much more than it would hurt Russia or do
- anything to have an effect on this war they would have an individual vote and when the last time they had an individual vote was on 40 roughly 40 billion dollars for a 56 members of
- congression voted against that but the support has eroded since then among Americans so much to the to the point
- that the last time Pelosi passed this money she connected it and I I think this is really despicable she connected it to
- the disaster relief to Florida think about that in order to provide relief to people who were victims of the disaster in Florida you had to increase
- the chance of nuclear disaster by sending money to Ukraine and throwing fuel on this fire she plans to do the same thing again I hear they're not
- we're just going to have an up or down vote on whether to send more taxpayer dollars to Ukraine we're going to have she's going to include it with response to viruses in response to more
- tropical storms and hurricanes it's all going to be in there so that if you don't vote for this then you can she will go out and have a
- press conference like she did last time and say well the Republicans didn't vote to help these people I want to put uh put out some numbers here for you so you
- can compare what what we're talking about the amount of money that we're talking about we're talking about billions not Millions and I've been fact checked on this so
- don't bother fact checking it now we've survived the fact check we've spent more in Ukraine the U.S Congress has then we
- spend on all of our roads and bridges in an entire year the entire infrastructure of this country the roads and bridges the real infrastructure we don't spend
- as much on that here as we've spent on Ukraine in nine months I think that's despicable our priorities
- are all out of whack and I'll finish with this we're trying to get the documents here to find out where the money went what we really need is a full audit I hope when
- we take the majority we will get a full audit we need an inspector General in Afghanistan we were spending about 50 billion dollars a year five zero billion
- dollars a year John Saco was the special Inspector General of Afghan reconstruction there because also it you
- know they call it reconstructive money they call it military money just like Ukraine it's all a big pool of money and the waste Fraud and Abuse in
- Afghanistan was epic every report that he put out showed that our money was being wasted and going to fraud and they
- know if they get an inspector General who has the credentials of somebody like John sapco we're going to find the same thing in Afghanistan and it's high time to stop sending any more money don't
- send another Penny to Ukraine and to start auditing where the money went and we
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