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Debt Ceiling Deal Puts No Limits on Ukraine Aid
Emergency spending that has been used to arm Ukraine is exempt and it could also be used to arm Taiwan
https://news.antiwar.com/2023/06/01/debt-ceiling-deal-puts-no-limits-on-ukraine-aid/
According to the Congressional Budget Office, funding “designated as an emergency requirement or for overseas contingency operations would not be constrained, and certain other funding would not be subject to the caps.” The deal suspends the nation’s debt limit through January 1, 2025.
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Hawks in Congress are looking to use emergency spending to increase the $886 billion military budget that was agreed to as part of the deal. The emergency funds could go beyond Ukraine and might be used to send weapons to Taiwan or for other spending that hawks favor as part of their strategy against China.
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“Clearly our support for Ukraine will be outside the budget, as it has been in the past, but I’d like to see additional support for our own military in emergency supplementals as well,” said Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT).