Summary

The Biden administration has moved to forgive $4.7 billion in U.S. loans to Ukraine as part of a $9.4 billion loan package authorized by Congress in April to support Ukraine’s government during its war with Russia.

State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller confirmed the decision, which Congress could still block.

The Senate is set to vote on a disapproval motion introduced by Senator Rand Paul, though bipartisan support for Ukraine remains strong.

President Biden is expediting aid ahead of his term’s end, amid concerns President-elect Trump may restrict future support.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
    02·
    3 days ago

    Infuriating.

    US borrowers can’t get their loans forgiven, but Biden’s going to be Ukraine’s personal Santa Claus for the next month and half, even though we’ve already allocated hundreds of billions to their war.

      • chilicheeselies@lemmy.worldEnglish
        02·
        3 days ago

        Dude this just isnt the way. Whether you like it or not a lot of people feel this way, and it permeates a lot of things. “Im suffering so why am i last?”. I agree that these are two different issues but lets stop calling people stupid for not understanding.

        • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          I kind of agree with calling people stupid. So much of the reasons people give for disliking what Biden has accomplished are straight up lack of awareness or misinformation. If someone makes a choice without awareness, possibly intentionally unaware, or is unable to break out of a misinformation rut, what do you call it?

          I really don’t think most Republicans are as malicious, spiteful, racist, or corrupt as the high profile Republican leaders, nor that they intentionally vote for that: they’re just being stupid

          The last few years of fact checking, reality checking, reasoned debate has gone nowhere. What do you call it when someone refuses to look outside their preexisting beliefs, regardless of how much proof? Maybe calling them in it will get their attention. Maybe stooping to their level is the only thing that will

        • Tyfud@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          That was a fine approach the first time around. But after almost a decade of GOP fuckery and apologists trying to blur the lines between the two parties, I’m with the guy calling out how fucking stupid it is to not call that jackass out for being a fucking idiot for trying to hide the fact that the GOP, and only the GOP, blocked all of the student debt relief that Biden tried to get through.

          The time for games is over.

          Adults are adults and responsible for their choices. Anyone that voted Trump or supports the GOP are traitors to democracy, and should not be handled with kid gloves anymore.

    • sensiblepuffin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      Biden’s forgiven the loans that he has the power to forgive. Judges and the House have blocked most of his loan forgiveness moves.

      If we can allocate billions of dollars to Israel, we can certainly forgive some of Ukraine’s loans.

      • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        01·
        3 days ago

        If we can The state shouldn’t allocate billions of dollars to Israel, we can but they should certainly forgive some of Ukraine’s loans.

    • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
      01·
      3 days ago

      You must get angry a lot, not understanding how so much of the world works.

      • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
        01·
        3 days ago

        I feel like we’ve seen plenty of historical examples of how this all works by now, from Rumsfeld shaking Hussein’s hand in 1983 when the US was going into debt to fund their war, and then throughout the 90’s when we went further into debt to fund Clinton’s “peacekeeping” actions (which actually were wars) and Bush I’s wars, and then we got lied into war again by Bush II and spent trillions on that, tacking on further wars in Syria and elsewhere, but you all are content to ignore history because your preferred news network tells you to. Going off of history, it’s only a matter of time before we find out we were lied to about Ukraine or the hundreds of billions we were kind enough to take out on credit in order to gift them was largely misused.

        And as much as you care about democracy, you don’t have any empathy whatsoever for the people that US Banks and the Pharma industry are at war with, our own citizens.