Omnibus Bill: “Have Our Leaders Thought This Through?”

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Published: March 15, 2022 | Date of Source Audio: March 11, 2022

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Charlie Kirk gives an accounting of the $1.5 trillion spending package that sends billions to Ukraine

Charlie Kirk: So, I want to get into a story here that broke late last night. The United States Senate has approved the $1.5 trillion spending bill that expands the power of the IRS and dramatically increases the size and scope of government last evening. But also, it sends $13.6 billion to Ukraine. We're going to get into that.

Now, Senate Republicans voted for this – 18 of them voted for it. Senator Barrasso from Wyoming. Roy Blunt from Missouri. Shelley Moore Capito from West Virginia. Susan Collins from Maine. John Cornyn from Texas. Joni Ernst from Iowa. Lindsey Graham from South Carolina. Chuck Grassley from Iowa. Cindy Hyde-Smith from Mississippi. Mitch McConnell from Kentucky. Senator Moran from Kansas. Lisa Murkowski from Alaska. Rob Portman from Ohio. Senator Shelby from Alabama. John Thune from South Dakota. Tommy Tuberville from Alabama. Senator Wicker from Mississippi. And Senator Young from Indiana approved Nancy Pelosi's $1.5 trillion on the omnibus bill. What good are Republicans when we have Republicans doing the work of Democrats?

So, I want to focus on one part of this, which of course, is us spending $13.6 billion to Ukraine. Now, I'm not going to get into whether or not we should send the money. I've already made my position clear on that. I'm going to ask a couple questions about this. Have our leaders thought this through? What does success look like with this sort of funding appropriation? What is an acceptable result?

So, a rational way of going about spending money, any person that we have here at NRB would ask the question: before you spend $13.6 billion, before you embark on a mission, you don't have to say if it's the right or wrong thing to do, but also weigh the reality of pulling off that task and the track record associated with the entity or the organization proposing it.

So I have a question for all of our listeners that support sending money to Ukraine. Do you have trust in the CIA? Does Mark Milley and Lloyd Austin give you confidence? Because that's who we just funded. Does giving foreign aid to other countries give you confidence or does it give you skepticism?

So, just to be clear, these Republicans and a lot of people that are pushing for sending aid to Ukraine – and it might be the right choice, by the way. I have said I don't believe it is. I could be corrected, but it's already done.

But here's the question. So the same government who let all the 9/11 terrorists in, did nothing to prevent the 2008 financial crisis, messed up our response to Hurricane Katrina, they can't build an Obamacare website, they gave billions of dollars of tax benefits to dead people, they spent billions of dollars of checks through the Social Security Administration to dead people, they wrongly locked down our country, they pushed a faulty vaccine on our population, they droned a random family in Afghanistan, they lied about the invasion of Iraq. These are the people that are now saying they're going to bring resolution to what's happening in Ukraine.

“When we give money to foreign countries, we can't track that money.”

The very same people that screwed up the Afghanistan withdrawal are now saying that everything's going to be perfect in Ukraine. If you guys loved what happened in Afghanistan, you guys are going to be thrilled with what is going to happen in Ukraine. Same sort of people. We give $85 billion of weapons to the Taliban. When we give money to foreign countries, we can't track that money.

Quote, “The 13.6 billion emergency package for Ukraine includes money for humanitarian aid, defense assistance, and economic support for the region. Lawmakers more than doubled the amount of money in the package over the past several weeks as a severity of the fighting and the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine grew. The money is divided between what lawmakers term lethal and humanitarian aid. The humanitarian section includes $4 billion for displaced people within Ukraine and the estimated 2 million people who have fled the country since the war began two weeks ago. More than $2.5 billion will go to the U.S. Agency of International Development for food and healthcare support. Another $1.4 billion is intended for migration and refugee assistance. The defense or lethal aid section is $3 billion to support U.S. military's European Command aid to quote, ‘use for operation mission support, deployment of personnel to the region, and intelligence support. Another $650 million will go to grants or aids or loans to the Department of Defense.’”

So, if you guys love Mark Milley, he just got a lot more powerful. The Mark Milley who's teaching CRT, who said that white terrorism is the biggest threat to America. That's who gets more powerful when you want to get involved in Ukraine. Just so we understand what's really going on here.

And I'm not making an argument of whether or not we should help the Ukrainians. I've heard very good arguments about it. But we're not dealing in that sort of circumstances.

The moral question aside, let's just look at the technical question. Are the people running our country capable of actually accomplishing any form of success in Ukraine? Ask yourself that at a very fundamental – when you see Mark Milley, do you think General Patton, or do you think a circus clown?

“The legislation also gives President Biden the authority to transfer an additional $3 billion in defense equipment to Ukraine and other allies supporting Ukraine.” That is from National Public Radio.

Let's play some sound here of Mitch McConnell saying that look, we ended up with $14 billion. He said it needed to be passed quickly. Now, remember Mitch McConnell never said the southern border wall needed to be financed quickly. He never said that our own border needed to be secured quickly. But if a country is in crisis 5,000 miles away, Mitch McConnell will make sure his oath to the Ukrainian – I'm sorry, he never took an oath to the Ukrainian constitution. He's an office member of our country, but he sprints and dashes to go help Ukraine. And he never did that to support our own country. Hmm.

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Clip of Mitch McConnell: Well, let me start by saying if I were the Majority leader, we'd be on the Ukraine Supplemental right now. But, where we've ended up is that $14 billion, an important step that needs to be passed and it needs to be passed quickly.

Kirk: He says it's an important step. It needs to be passed and it needs to be passed quickly. We need urgency to help a foreign country.

And look, it's completely evil and wrong what Vladimir Putin is doing in Ukraine. I'm not going to get into the moral part of this. We've built that out completely and totally. I'm just asking the question, that for those of you that enthusiastically support arming Ukraine – who’s to say the weapons will actually go where they're intended? So we spent $85 billion in weapons in Afghanistan and now the Taliban have helicopters they don't even know how to fly, thanks to our taxpayer dollars.

So, if you don't have trust in the American elites, if you don't have trust in the people that run our country, what's to say that they will actually be able to manage a successful course of action in Ukraine. If we were not able to properly handle the Chinese coronavirus and we locked down our own country, who's to say that we'll be able to handle a nuclear armed power.