If you had any lingering questions about where Joe Biden’s priorities are in terms of spending your money, this latest development should clear things up. In his latest round of demands for both foreign and domestic funding, Biden is asking Congress for $40 billion. In an era where we regularly pluck trillions of dollars of magical cash from the money tree in the Rose Garden, that may not sound like all that much, but it’s still a ton of your taxpayer dollars. But where will this money go? More than half of it will be going to Zelensky in Ukraine, including $13 billion in defense aid and another $8 billion for “humanitarian support.” But there is also money for federal disaster relief here at home. That will come in at $12 billion. That’s barely half of what will be going to our tracksuit-wearing friend in Kyiv. So I suppose we know where we stand on the food chain. (Newsmax)

The Biden administration on Thursday asked Congress to provide more than $13 billion in emergency defense aid to Ukraine and an additional $8 billion for humanitarian support through the end of the year, another massive infusion of cash as the Russian invasion wears on and Ukraine pushes a counteroffensive against the Kremlin’s deeply entrenched forces.

The package includes $12 billion to replenish the U.S. federal disaster funds at home after a deadly climate season of heat and storms, and funds to bolster the enforcement at the Southern border with Mexico, including money to curb the flow of deadly fentanyl. All told, it’s a $40 billion package.

There is some money included for increased coverage at the border and to supposedly combat the flow of fentanyl coming in from Mexico, but not nearly as much as the other priorities listed. And the border money was obviously only included to try to draw some GOP support, particularly in the House, where members are growing increasingly skeptical of the situation in Ukraine.

How skeptical? It’s being reported that a “clash” may be on the way for the first time since the war began.

A political divide on the issue has grown, with the Republican-led House facing enormous pressure to demonstrate support for the party’s leader, Donald Trump, who has been very skeptical of the war. And American support for the effort has been slowly softening…

Still, the price tag of $40 billion may be too much for Republicans who are fighting to slash, not raise, federal outlays. As a supplemental request, the package the White House is sending to Congress falls outside the budget caps both parties agreed to as part of the debt ceiling showdown earlier this year.

Saying that American support for the war in Ukraine has been “slowly softening” may be something of an understatement. The latest poll from CNN showed that a majority of Americans (55%) do not support additional funding for Ukraine and that the United States has “already done enough.” That’s not a massive number and you might fairly say that the country is “divided” on the subject, but we’re already well past the point of “softening.”

And how did the White House respond to the news that a majority of voters don’t want to send another massive bucket of cash to Zelensky? They blew off the news entirely. Spokesman John Kirby was put on a call with reporters where he insisted that they have “solid support from the American people, solid support from the Congress… for continuing to support Ukraine.”

In other words, even if you’re part of the 55% who disagree, your opinion doesn’t matter, even though it’s your money they’re spending. You can just sit in your pod and continue paying your taxes like a good servant. The permanent power structure in Washington will decide what’s best for you.

The problem is, they probably have good reason to be confident. While there are some growing doubters among the House GOP, there are still far too many Republicans who are parroting Biden’s line about doing this “for as long as it takes.” Meanwhile, the only people really profiting from this are in the military-industrial complex. With that in mind, assuming this war and America’s funding of it are still going on when the primary voting starts, Ukraine absolutely has to be on the ballot. If you don’t support this endless open spigot of American cash while Europe pays almost nothing by comparison and your representative is still all in, find an alternative that is more in keeping with your priorities. There’s no rule saying that every Republican in the House has some inherent right to stay there forever, and they probably shouldn’t anyway.