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Jones Again Opposes Foreign Aid to Ukraine

Statement

Date: March 27, 2014
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Foreign Aid Government Budget and Spending

Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) voted against the Ukraine Support Act (H.R. 4278), which would obligate the United States to send $70 million in foreign aid to Ukraine despite the fact that the American national debt is over $17 trillion.

"America must end our reckless cycle of spending money that we do not have and borrowing billions of dollars from foreign governments -- only to funnel that borrowed money back overseas in the form of aid to countries like Ukraine," said Congressman Jones. "As of January 2014, the United States had borrowed over $131 billion from Russia, meaning that the aid we are sending to Ukraine is actually coming from the very country we claim to be opposing. This type of irresponsible fiscal policy only serves to burden future generations of American taxpayers with a crushing foreign debt."


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