AAF: Calling Balls and Strikes on $95 Billion Foreign Aid Package

Download the full document (PDF)

For more information, please contact AAF Policy Director John Shelton at jshelton@advancingamericanfreedom.com

AAF: Calling Balls and Strikes on $95 Billion Foreign Aid Package

The Good — Rearms Ukraine, Resupplies Israel, and Hardens Taiwan

• $48 billion for Ukraine - Resupplies Ukraine’s war effort, through American businesses, without wastefully funding Ukrainian pensions, replenishes American weapons stock, and requires an explicit strategy and benchmarks for Ukrainian victory. o $20 billion - of this would go toward replenishing U.S. stock. • $11 billion for Israel – including $4B for missile defense and $1.2B for the Iron Beam. • $4.8 billion to deter China – $1.9B to backfill U.S. weapons sent to Taiwan. • Defunds UNRWA – Blocks any funding in the bill and previous bills from going to the

United Nations Relief and Works Agency, a Hamas collaborator. The Bad — Continues to Fund Non-Lethal Aid.

• 10% of funding goes to non-lethal aid for foreign countries.

o Provides $7.85 billion in "direct budget support” to Ukraine and $1.6 billion to prop up Ukraine’s future economy. o Europe should provide humanitarian aid so the U.S. can provide tanks, F-16s and artillery shells. o Read: Pence in WSJ: Only Weapons Can End the Ukraine War o Balloons the budget of the Nonprofit Security Grant Program at FEMA.

▪ FY23: $305 million. This bill: $400 million.

The Ugly — Blows Out Spending Agreements, Does Not Secure the Southern Border, Ultimately Funds Hamas, and Does Not Stop Biden From Undermining Israel.

• The Schumer-Johnson budget deal set an overall spending level of $1.59 trillion in

FY24. This $95 billion package would blow past the agreement.

o Not one penny is paid for. See: AAF’s Israel pay-for memo. • Does not include H.R. 2.

o Secures foreign borders, but not our own. • Continues to fund “aid” organizations in Gaza, eventually funding Hamas. • Doesn’t restrict President Biden’s ability to dictate Israel’s military strategy.

• Don’t Abandon the Conservative Case for American Global Leadership • Securing Border and Supporting Allies Are Not Mutually Exclusive • Mike Pence’s AAF sends memo to lawmakers: ‘Biden doesn’t seem to want Israel to win’ • Pence-Founded Group Urges Biden Administration to Target Iran, Not Proxies • The Biden Administration’s Houthi Half Measure • Pence-Founded Group Leads Call to Re-Designate Houthis a Terrorist Organization • Demand Biden Admin End Funding For UN Agency Over Hamas Scandal