During Sunday night’s 60 Minutes broadcast on CBS, one segment revealed that U.S. taxpayers are covering the cost of more than just weapons for the war in Ukraine; we’re “buying seeds and fertilizer for Ukrainian farmers… and covering the salaries of Ukraine’s first responders – all 57,000 of them,” CBS reports.
“And the U.S. also funds the divers who we saw clearing unexploded ammunition from the country’s rivers – to make them safe again for swimming and fishing,” the segment continued. “Russia’s invasion shrank Ukraine’s economy by about a third. We were surprised to find that to keep it afloat the U.S. government is subsidizing small businesses.”
Meanwhile, House GOP members are beginning to sour on sending more cash to Ukraine. Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene shared a post on X on Sunday showing how U.S. military service members “[live] in filth and squalor.”
“Outrageous! 😡 Biden’s Department of Defense has U.S. military service members living in filth and squalor on our own bases while they demand more money for Ukraine! I’m not voting to fund war while our own troops are treated worse than garbage!”
