If you include the supplemental funding that was provided in 2023, to address Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine, the fiscal year 2024 request would actually be a 15 percent cut over the overall expenditures.
Coons discusses the budget request in light of ongoing global challenges.
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Amazingly, this law is modeled after a Russian law, and considering what Russia has done to Georgia, that is unbelievable.
It includes significant aid for Ukraine for the coming year, not what they need, but hundreds of millions of dollars.
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