Subject: Re: I Don't Wnt Them Here
but then....

'Biden to Send Maui Less than One-Tenth
of One Percent of What He Wants to Send Ukraine'

#1. Breitbart is garbage. If you're getting your info from them, you are not well-informed. Just because they say what you want to hear does not mean they are accurate. Independent monitoring entities rank Breitbart near the bottom in terms of reliability and accuracy. You should really stop reading their crap.

#2. I follow the Ukraine conflict pretty closely. Most of what we are "sending" is hardware. Hardware that we had in storage, mostly because we were never going to use it again because it was obsolete. The accountants will tally that as an expenditure for the Ukraine column in their ledgers. But the hardware already existed. We produced them years ago, sometimes decades ago (the F16 is old, early versions of the M1 Abrams are old). Are we producing new stuff to send? Nope. Just as Russia is scavenging their boneyards for T72s (really old tanks), and even T62s (really really old tanks), we are sending our obsolete stuff from storage. The actual cost to us is negligible. We just have to put it on a plane and send it.

Maui, on the other hand, is receiving new expenditures. Biden opened up the federal disaster relief fund for Maui. Here are the facts (which Breitbart is allergic to):

https://www.whitehouse.gov/bri....

Last week, President Biden made additional disaster funding available to the state of Hawaiʻi, unlocking the federal government's ability to cover all eligible expenses for debris removal and emergency protective measures in Maui County and assistance for emergency protective measures for Hawaiʻi County. The President authorized the federal cost share to be increased from 75% to 100% for 30 days that the Governor selects within the first 120 days.

And more
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-b...
and more and more and more...

The info is out there. You just have to want to find it. I did it in about 10 seconds.