{"id":36611,"date":"2024-12-31T10:13:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=36611"},"modified":"2025-01-26T01:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T07:17:07","slug":"u-s-sending-5-9-billion-in-aid-for-ukraine-ahead-of-trump-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=36611","title":{"rendered":"U.S. sending $5.9 billion in aid for Ukraine ahead of Trump inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The U.S. is sending&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/world\/axios-explains-ukraine\"><u>Ukraine<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;$5.9 billion in military aid and budget support, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/politics-policy\/joe-biden\"><u>Biden<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;administration announced on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Why it matters:&nbsp;<\/strong>It&#8217;s part of President&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/politics-policy\/joe-biden\"><u>Biden&#8217;s<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;pledge for a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/11\/07\/biden-ukraine-aid-surge-trump\"><u>&#8220;surge&#8221; in aid<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;for Kyiv before he&#8217;s succeeded by President-elect&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/politics-policy\/donald-trump\"><u>Trump<\/u><\/a>, who&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/donald-trump-ukraine-russia-war-threatens-cut-aid-election-2024\/\"><u>criticized<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;the U.S. givingUkraine military assistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;At my direction, the United States will continue to work relentlessly to strengthen Ukraine&#8217;s position in this war over the remainder of my time in office,&#8221; Biden said in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2024\/12\/30\/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-u-s-support-for-ukraines-defense\/\"><u>statement<\/u><\/a>\u00a0announcing $2.5 billion in security assistance for Kyiv on Monday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Driving the news:&nbsp;<\/strong>The aid will include an additional $1.25 billion drawdown package for the Ukrainian military and a $1.22 billion Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) package, per Biden&#8217;s statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Elsewhere, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/news\/press-releases\/jy2764\"><u>announced<\/u><\/a>\u00a0the U.S. has made available $3.4 billion in direct budget support for Ukraine, in coordination with the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>What he&#8217;s saying:&nbsp;<\/strong>&#8220;I&#8217;ve directed my Administration to continue surging as much assistance to Ukraine as quickly as possible \u2014 including drawing down older U.S. equipment for Ukraine, rapidly delivering it to the battlefield, and then revitalizing the U.S. defense industrial base to modernize and replenish our stockpiles with new weapons,&#8221; Biden said in his statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/12\/31\/ukraine-aid-us-weapons-economic-package\">axios<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. is sending&nbsp;Ukraine&nbsp;$5.9 billion in military aid and budget support, the&nbsp;Biden&nbsp;administration announced on Monday. Why it matters:&nbsp;It&#8217;s part of President&nbsp;Biden&#8217;s&nbsp;pledge for a&nbsp;&#8220;surge&#8221; in aid&nbsp;for Kyiv before he&#8217;s succeeded by President-elect&nbsp;Trump, who&#8217;s&nbsp;criticized&nbsp;the U.S. givingUkraine military assistance. Driving the news:&nbsp;The aid will include an additional $1.25 billion drawdown package for the Ukrainian military and a $1.22 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":36612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153],"tags":[1761,31439,1230,1416],"class_list":["post-36611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military","tag-aid","tag-inauguration","tag-trump","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36613,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36611\/revisions\/36613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}