More than $20 million of the Pentagon aid at the center of the impeachment fight still hasn’t reached Ukraine. The continued delay undermines a key argument against impeachment from Trump’s Republican allies.
More than $20 million of the Pentagon aid at the center of the impeachment fight still hasn’t reached Ukraine.
On Thursday, as lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee debated articles of impeachment, Republicans on the panel continued to assert that Trump did not abuse his power because the aid was released before Ukraine’s new government announced any investigations.“They got the money on Sept. 11,” Rep. Jim Jordan said of Ukraine in the Thursday hearing. “That’s what happened. You can make up all the things you want, but those are not the facts.
When the Trump administration ultimately dropped its hold on the aid on Sept. 11, Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike had to scramble to save the money. Just days shy of the deadline, they passed — and Trump signed into law — a yearlong extension to allow the Pentagon to disburse the aid. But in late November The Times reported thatAbout $15 million has since been contracted out, leaving $20.2 million remaining in U.S. accounts, according to the Pentagon and Senate aides.
“Specifically, we needed to reach out to prospective vendors to obtain updated pricing data,” she said. “Delays in obtaining this information is impacting our overall time lines.”But Senate staffers said that law contained no such requirements for the Pentagon to essentially start over on contracts.
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