today in order to sustain ukraine as it continues the fight i am sending congress a supplemental budget request to keep weapons and ammunition following without interruption for ukrainian fighters with humanitarian assistance. how congress can congress deliver the $33 billion of aid that has been promised? you think we can do it as quickly as possible. you can do that before the end of the month? we have to that s why were so pleased to hear we can proceed immediately with this bill today. we cannot afford to wait. time is of the essence. every day. spanky performing without
to have a solution for this war. president biden has asked the us congress for $33 billion in extra funding for ukraine. he said the money was designed to defend ukraine, rather than attack russia. today, in order to sustain ukraine, as it continues to fight, i am sending congress a supplemental budget request that will keep weapons and ammunition slowing flowing without interruption to the brave ukrainian fighters and continue delivering economic and humanitarian assistance to the ukrainian people. earlier, i spoke to former pentagon official elbridge colby and asked him how these funds will be used. it is for a wide variety of purposes, a lot of it is directly for ukraine, macroeconomic systems, direct weapons assistance,
and we absolutely need to end this war and we absolutely need to have a solution for this war. in extra funding for ukraine. he said the money was designed to defend ukraine, rather than attack russia. today, in order to sustain ukraine, as it continues to fight, i am sending congress a supplemental budget request that will keep weapons and ammunition flowing without interruption to the brave ukrainian fighters and continue delivering economic and humanitarian assistance to the ukrainian people. earlier, i spoke to former pentagon official elbridge colby and asked him how these funds will be used. it is for a wide variety of purposes, a lot of it is directly for ukraine, macroeconomic assistance, direct weapons assistance, humanitarian assistance, but there is also quite a lot for backfilling depleted us munitions, and other weapons
clarification frankly doesn t address the question in the first place about whether or not the president is actually considering delaying the end of title 42. yesterday officials at the white house insisted they were planning on and preparing for the end of title 42 and of course may 23rd. meanwhile, mr. biden announced today additional security assistance for ukraine to the tune of another $800 million including heavy artillery and ammunition. in case you have lost count, that is $2 billion from your treasury, including money and equipment since the start of the biden administration. what is more, we also learned today the u.s. intends to provide an additional $500 million in economic assistance to the ukrainian government. all of this is happening as the president sends to congress a supplemental budget request to keep the weapons flowing. a lot of money leaving washington for this war effort, shannon. shannon: all right, kevin we will discuss something near
dispersement, i m almost exhausted at the drawdown i had authorized by congress for ukraine in the bipartisan spending bill last month. in order to sustain ukraine for the duration of this fight, next week i m going to have to be sending to congress a supplemental budget request to keep weapons and ammunition flowing without interruption. the brave ukrainian fighters who continued to deliver economic assistance to the ukrainian people. my hope and expectation is that congress would move and act quickly. i want to thank the congress, democrats and republicans for their support for the people of ukraine. our unity at home, with our allies and partners and our unity with the ukrainian people is sending unmistakable message to putin. he will never succeed in dominating and occupying all of ukraine. that will not happen. in addition to bolstering ukraine s resistance on the battlefield, we re also demonstrating our support for the people of ukraine. today, the united states is