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The Lead: U.S. Congress Is Not Interested In Knowing Where The
Money Goes
 credit: president of ukraine
The U.S. Senate voted
against creating an inspector general position to oversee U.S. aid
to Ukraine. This means that the U.S. is uninterested in counting or
tracking the $113 billion worth of aid it is sending to Ukraine.
The bill was modeled after the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan
Reconstruction (SIGAR), which John Sopko has filled since 2012. He has
since found tens of billions of dollars in waste of U.S. aid to Afghanistan
and criticized U.S. policy for foreign aid.
But it seems Congress is a-okay with repeating these mistakes. They do
not want to ensure that the aid to Ukraine does what they say it will do or
keep tabs on any of it.
Meanwhile, the U.K. has confirmed that it completed training for
Ukrainian soldiers on deploying depleted uranium on the battlefield.
President Putin says that if this is used on the battlefield, it will be a
major escalation.
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