Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy talks with House Speaker Mike Johnson
By John Binder, Breitbart News, April 19, 2024
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. …
A spending bill backed by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) includes hundreds of millions of dollars in American taxpayer money for border patrol agents in Ukraine as illegal immigration at the United States-Mexico border remains at record levels.
The spending bill, which 151 House Republicans helped 165 House Democrats advance on Friday, would see more than $95 billion sent to foreign countries — including about $61 billion to Ukraine amid its ongoing war with Russia.
Slipped into the funding package’s Ukraine spending is $300 million for “the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine 20 and National Police of Ukraine, including units supporting 21 or under the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”
The State Border Guard Service is the Ukrainian equivalent of the U.S. Border Patrol. …