independent media, but also making sure they could survive a war and continue to report on what the ukrainian authorities were doing in a critical way, as a check and balance. civil society organizations, judges, we just launched a new initiative with the g. a. o. and united states to help ukraine build a supreme audit institution. and that is going to be incredibly important for reconstruction all the resources that are flowing in. with regard to the very large investments that we make in providing monthly direct budget support, so that health workers can be paid and educators can be paid, people with disabilities can get support when ukrainian budget is under such strain and such pressure. that, we do on basically a reimbursable basis. we don t provide resources unless we see the receipt for the expenditure. and up until this point, we don t have any evidence that u. s. assistance is being misused or misspent. but again, the key is not resting on anyone s good will or virtue, its che
support so that health workers can be paid and educators can be paid and people with disabilities can get support when ukrainian budget is under such strain and such pressure, that we do on basically a reimbursable basis. we don t provide resources unless we see the receipt for the expenditure and up to this point we don t have any evidence that u.s. assistance is being misused or misspent but, again, the key is not resting on anybody s good will or virtue, it s checks and balances. the rule of law, the integrity of officials and when something is spotted because there are going to be issues that that gets smothered, that the people get fired, that they get prosecuted and what s amazing about this last year is at the same time people like yegor has been fighting in the trenches, the fight against corruption has been continuing and continuing to pass laws on whistle-blower protection and e-procurement so
50,000 afghan special immigrant visa applicants and families an other at-risk individuals. u.s. northern command will coordinate with the state department and the department of homeland security and the department of health and human services as necessary and will provided under presidential drawdown authority under the maximum except possible with additional support providing on a reimbursable basis. as general taylor told you, we have general van herk coming into the briefing room this afternoon and he ll be able to provide por context on that. with that. we ll take questions. leta. this is probably for the general. the president has said he wants to vow to get back at isis. how difficult will it be for the u.s. military to do that type of operation considering the lower number of troops and the difficulty in getting intelligence on the ground and then i don t know if this is you or john, can you just talk about
consider leaving as soon as they can safely do so. and the cairo airport remains open at this time, the state department will also be chartering several flights over the next several flights, listen here to part of their instructions from earlier in the day. the department of state is making arrangements to provide transportation to safe haven locations in europe. this assistance will be provided on a reimbursable basis as it required by u.s. law. u.s. citizens who travel on u.s. government arranged transport will be expected to make their own onward travel plans from the safe haven location. . reporter: and the state department said they are checking with embassies in other countries to make sure they re properly equipped to access those safe havens. some of the spots they re looking at for being a safe haven are in greece, turkey, and cypress, but they declined to give exact locations or exact times for those chartered flights. at this hour we still have not heard of any american