A look at what's in the $95 billion foreign aid package and what the money does
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🗓️ 24 April 2024
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| 0:00.0 | We return now to that sweeping foreign aid package that's now law and set to deliver |
| 0:05.5 | tens of billions of dollars to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Lisa Desjardin is here now to walk |
| 0:11.2 | us through what happens now. |
| 0:13.0 | So Lisa, the biggest portion of that foreign aid package is for Ukraine. |
| 0:17.0 | How soon does the money and the weapons get there? |
| 0:20.0 | Almost immediately within hours or days is what we're being told. |
| 0:23.5 | The reason we want to look at this is because while this is past Congress, there's a lot of drama and intensity there. |
| 0:28.5 | This is a world kind of matter now. |
| 0:31.0 | What happens to all this money? |
| 0:32.0 | So let's look at some of the biggest |
| 0:33.2 | money especially for Ukraine where those sixty billion dollars for Ukraine are going the |
| 0:37.5 | largest portion twenty three billion is actually to replenish US stockpiles weapons |
| 0:41.3 | we've already sent fourteen billion would be new weapons for Ukraine that |
| 0:45.7 | would go through contractors here in America and 8 billion would be a transfer of existing weapons. |
| 0:51.4 | Now what do we know about the weapons? Ukraine as you saw yourself in |
| 0:55.2 | desperate need. What are they getting? The White House today announced the first |
| 0:58.8 | billion dollars or so worth of weapons that will be going. Mostly they said it would be short-range |
| 1:04.3 | anti-aircraft missiles. We know the need there for in Ukraine. In addition there |
| 1:08.8 | would be artillery, those big guns 105 millimeter, 155 millimeter Bradley vehicles. |
| 1:15.0 | We've talked about that on this show before and the needs there in Ukraine. |
| 1:18.0 | And anti-armore systems and mines to push back at the Russians. |
| 1:22.0 | Now, what's not on that list of what was announced today? |
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