Sen. Lisa Murkowski has joined forces with Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a New Hampshire Democrat, to introduce legislation that would more than $50 billion in American taxpayer dollars to Ukraine over the next two years, as it fights with Russia.
The proposal was introduced by Sheehan on Thursday. President Donald Trump has set an Aug. 8 deadline for Moscow to engage in peace negotiations or face a new round of sanctions.
The Shaheen-Murkowski legislation would add to the over $460 billion already spent on Ukraine as it defends itself against Russia aggression.
The bill also appears to be a direct response to recent developments in Trump Administration policy. In March, Trump paused intelligence sharing with Kyiv for a week following a dispute with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Recently, the Pentagon delayed some weapons transfers pending a policy review.
The legislation may face political headwinds. Republican leaders in both the House and Senate are deferring to Trump on foreign policy matters, and the administration has taken a hard line against increasing foreign aid. Congressional appropriators advanced a separate defense funding measure Thursday that includes just $1 billion in Ukraine-related military assistance, a fraction of what the new bill proposes.
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the US has allocated approximately $182.8 billion in emergency funding to support Ukraine and the region, with $175 billion approved by Congress through five bills, the most recent being $60 billion in April 2024.
Although Congress passed the aid package in 2024, the vote revealed fault lines within the GOP: 18 senators opposed the measure, including then-Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, now vice president.
If it was for Poland, I’d tell Lisa to demand $250 billion.
Frankie taught the family how to keep the “skis” pointing downhill. LOL …
So,
How many “ski” poles does it take to keep Lisa upright while quickly going downhill?
Anyone?
Murkowski will do anything to derail President Trump, what a piece of work!
How about some money for the roads on the kenai peninsula.
I drove down Bogard (not where it’s been fixed) yesterday. Those aren’t potholes. They’re sink holes!
How about the EU get its ass in gear and help Ukraine. Spineless useless bastards will be under Russian rule if they don’t quit being such passive wimps. Europe has everything to loose. Everything.
Looks like a queen salmon got pulled from the dipnet and dumped in the halls of Congress.
Somebody should club it already, and put it out of our misery.
PS: I only had to try posting this comment 16 times before I stopped getting the “403 Forbidden” blocking message.
Im with you Jefferson. She is a disgrace to the entire country.
The two gentle ladies ought to google “Zelensky offshore”.
More waste and grift (aka: “theft”) of taxpayer dollars.
The Russians will next take Kiev and then Odessa.
We need to get-out-of this conflict as it’s a dead-end.
Nope
Murkowski just plain needs to change to a Democrat!!! She is worthless as a Republican!!
I don’t think there is any question about it. Judging by her behavior, she not only got vaccinated, but boosted a few times,too.
I trust you weren’t alive when polio was rampant? Guess if you had been, you would’ve opted out of that vaccine as well?
Yeah….that’s the same thing. You’re brilliant.
No one is talking about polio vaccine. Nor are they against it. If you trust these modern pharmaceutical companies you are definitely out of your mind. COVID vaccine was virtually untested and FORCED on people. We are paying a price now for this mess now. If you can’t see the ramifications of COVID vaccine you are blind and ignorant.
It wasn’t untested in the least. They did pilot testing on over 100,000 people. You’re delusional. Try reading a peer-reviewed, scientific article once in a while.
Your thimerasol addiction is unseemly…
And yet I got the vaccine and two boosters and I’m still here completely unaffected just like millions of other people around the planet.
That was a vaccine. The jab is not.
It was designed to induce an immune response, the very definition of a vaccine. Your ignorance is astounding.
Cman
Look up tucker Carlson and the doctor who talked about polio.
Send lisa to the front lines of Ukraine, after all its a cause.
Tucker is your source? Really?
If Murkowski gets her way, some will continue to get very rich from this war. They don’t want it to end.
Ridiculous! We don’t want to spend more money away from the US.
I suppose she may actually be serious. She wants to fight to the last dead Ukrainian, or, in the alternative, until the last Ukrainian moves to Switzerland to spend the free American money.
Better idea- deport princess lisa to Ukraine and she can “demand” all she wants from there. We’re done with lisa and her NGO money laundering machines.
Didn’t she get the memo, the Ukraine gift is over. The majority of the country voted last November to pull the plug on endless wars.
Give them your money Taxpayer money should stay in the US.
How much longer are we paying for Bidens war.
A few news articles:
Ukraine’s Bold £1.2 Billion Ski Resort Set to Redefine Luxury Tourism Near the Polish Border.
While men are dying in the trenches, the Ukrainian elite is arriving in Monaco on luxury yachts, up to 200 feet long with helipads.
Keep bucking the MAGA Tide and see what happens, FAFO.
Wish Lisa was as dedicated to Alaska’s well being, as she is to Ukraine.
1) Alaska’s road system throughout the state could use massive upgrades, there’s lot’s of broken pavement, and passing zones needed.
2) Anchorage real estate is locked in with a captive market. That makes everything extremely expensive and little to no opportunity for growth.
With only one way in and one way out of the bowel. Any single road way problem and Anchorage, along with every one else, are stopped dead in their tracts. With the volume of people who have to travel that highway, it seems very foolish and short sighted, that there’s not at least a second choice for a travel route in or out of Alaska’s largest city. Federal funds to create that second route would by far be a better choice for that money.
Guess Lisa’s more interested in dead Ukrainians and Russians than helping Alaskans. Oh that’s right, a big chunk of the Ukrainian funds seem to get funneled back to Democrats, and now evidently RINO’s, as well. Sure pays to be on the team that gets paid. That whole scheme needs to be investigated, and audited, holding politicians accountable.
Sure would be nice if Alaskans had someone in office who would put them first, over self enrichment plots, or foreign interest. Alaskans deserve better.
Why? Does Zelinsky and family need another villa? Or is Murkowski a participant in the greatest money laundering scheme in American history?
She should convince 50,000,000 millionaires to give some of their pocket change to Ukraine, but it would be better if they don’t spend another dime of USA taxpayers’ money for anything.
Ask yourself: Does anybody care? She’s so irrelevant.
Does the princess have any kids she’d like to donate to the cause?
Crickets…???
Apparently she just wants to send my money.
My suggestion for both of those 2watts is to get to work in the kitchen and hold a bake sale for Ukraine. The US, the NATO Cartel and Western Europe stirred up that mess in 2014 into what it is now.
LOL
They couldn’t make a sammich (or anything else that would in any fashion be edible) to save their life… it would be comical to see them try.
Not one more dime for Ukraine. None. they’ve sucked enough out of this Country.