This past July, the Trump Administration withheld nearly a half-billion dollars (to be more precise, about $390 million) in aid, both military and more general, from Ukraine. We've heard about the reasoning (if one can call it that) behind short-changing Ukraine I have to wonder, though, how long it will be before we're told why military aid, to Lebanon, already appropriated by Congress, was withheld by the Trump Administration.
Today, the administration released $105 million of that aid. This loosening of the purse strings was largely due to criticism from legislators, as well as from current and former members of the U. S. Foreign Service. The aid dispersed today had been held, unexplained, for months.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D - CT) traveled a few weeks ago to Lebanon, and said yesterday he could see no legitimate security
rationale to withhold funding.
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