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FactCheck.org :
False Claim Ukraine Got Aid 'Before Schedule'
By D'Angelo Gore
Posted on January 24, 2020
President Donald Trump, who last year froze hundreds of millions of dollars in security aid for Ukraine, claimed "
they got all of it long before schedule." That's false.
For fiscal year 2019, Congress authorized $391 million in security assistance, including training, equipment, and other support, for Ukraine. Of that amount, $250 million was appropriated to the Defense Department for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, and $141.5 million was allocated to the State Department for the Foreign Military Financing program. The funds were meant to be spent by those departments by September 30, 2019.
In June, the Defense Department announced its plan to provide the $250 million in security assistance to the Ukraine. However, in July, Trump directed the White House Office of Management to put the aid on hold. He also had OMB block the assistance from the State Department.
It wasn't until about two months later, on Sept. 11, when the White House - under pressure from members of Congress and administration officials - released the money.
But because the Defense Department was required to wait another 15 days before it could begin obligating the funds, it wasn't able to spend all of the money before the end of September, when the fiscal year ends.
Congress had to add a provision to a continuing appropriations bill - which Trump signed into law on September 27 - allowing the unspent funds to be used in fiscal year 2020.
Mark Sandy, the deputy associate director for national security at OMB, testified at his November 16 deposition that approximately $35 million had been left unobligated by the Defense Department. Those funds, he said, "
would have expired" if not for Congress stepping in.
Then, three days later, the Los Angeles Times reported that those funds still had not been spent, according to Pentagon documents the newspaper reviewed. And the following month, on December 12, the Times reported that about $20 million in aid "
still hasn't reached Ukraine."
That demonstrates all funds did not go out on schedule, as the president said.
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@NorthDallas40,
Do you understand that a new provision had to be added to the appropriations bill because of Trump's hold? Do you also understand that as of December 12, 2019, the Ukraine
STILL had not received all of those funds? That probably is beyond your capacity for comprehension, isn't it?
