FIRST ON FOX: Former U.S. Military Capt. Sam Brown, a Republican candidate within the 2024 Nevada Senate election, is looking for accountability and transparency from the Biden administration after its newest request for Congress to offer billions extra in funding for Ukraine amid its conflict with Russia.
Within the request despatched to Home Speaker Kevin McCarthy, President Biden requested $24 billion in aide to Ukraine, cut up between $13 billion for defense-related spending and $11 billion in financial and humanitarian help.
Brown — who’s seeking to unseat Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., within the state’s Senate election subsequent 12 months — insists that it’s time for the Senate to “begin demanding solutions” concerning how American taxpayer {dollars} are being spent within the war-torn nation.
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Former U.S. Military Capt. Sam Brown, left, is looking for accountability and transparency from the Biden administration after its newest request for Congress to offer billions extra in funding for Ukraine amid its conflict with Russia. (Josh Edelson, Ramsay de Give/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures)
“The world has been pulled into this conflict as a result of Russia sensed weak point from the Biden administration after its disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. For a 12 months and a half, Biden has demanded a clean test from the American taxpayer with zero accountability on the way it’s spent and seemingly no plan on the way to finish this conflict,” Brown stated in an announcement shared with Fox Information Digital. “Sure, Putin is an out-of-control dictator who should be stopped, however even Biden’s personal generals are telling him this conflict seems to be unwinnable.”
“The U.S. Senate must step up and begin demanding solutions,” he added. “As a substitute, Jacky Rosen is toeing the get together line and remaining silent whereas Joe Biden makes an attempt to raid the U.S. treasury once more for billions of {dollars} with no strings hooked up.”
If elected, Brown stated he would maintain “the Biden administration’s ft to the hearth” and ask questions concerning the $113 billion that has been allotted beforehand.
“We’d like a plan proper now. No extra clean checks. Jacky Rosen has failed to carry the administration accountable, however I gained’t,” added Brown, a Purple Coronary heart recipient who introduced a second consecutive run for the Senate earlier this 12 months.
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Democrat Nevada Sen. Jacky Rosen, left, and Republican Nevada Senate candidate and Afghanistan conflict veteran Sam Brown. (Getty Pictures)
Biden’s request to Congress additionally included $4 billion in spending on the border and immigration, in addition to combating fentanyl flowing into the USA from overseas origins. The entire mixed quantity of the request reached roughly $40 billion.
The extra spending request comes after Congress authorized $48 billion in funding for Ukraine in December, previous to Republicans taking management of the Home of Representatives.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy throughout a briefing with press on July 8, 2023, in Lviv, Ukraine. (Mykola Tys/World Pictures Ukraine)
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Approval of the funding is predicted to be an uphill battle within the Home, the place McCarthy has promised he wouldn’t carry a supplemental Ukraine funding invoice to the ground. Many conservatives have been vocally against giving Ukraine extra money with out extra accountability.
Fox Information’ Brandon Gillespie contributed to this text.
