I really hate it when these kinds of "aid packages" are talked about like "The American people were being quite generous". "The American people" don't really have a say in the matter. Got tax money for everything but actual social programs that would help US citizens. Healthcare is always "too expensive" but weapons will always see increases in budget. Fuck all of it!

With the extreme narrative management we've seen related to the proxy war to date, I wonder if this is a signal that the state dept is losing consensus on backing Ukraine.