Congress will have spent nearly $100 billion on Ukraine war once $1.7T omnibus bill is enacted

Congress will have allocated nearly $100 billion in total to the Ukraine war once the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill is signed into law.

President Biden and the Democrat-led Congress have appropriated about $48 billion for Ukraine since the Russian invasion began in February. That figure does not count the $45 billion in the massive spending bill that the Senate passed Thursday ahead of a Friday deadline, when the week-long temporary government funding bill Congress passed last week expires. 

The Council on Foreign Relations has reported that as of mid-December U.S. spending on the Ukraine war stood at about $48 billion, which included humanitarian, financial, and military support. 

"Heading into 2022, U.S. foreign assistance was driven by various priorities of the Biden administration, including combating climate change, responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, and countering authoritarianism," according to the CFR report.

"But since Russia's invasion in February, Ukraine has become far and away the top recipient of U.S. foreign aid," the report says. "It's the first time that a European country has held the top spot since the Harry S. Truman administration directed vast sums into rebuilding the continent through the Marshall Plan after World War II."

CFR found that "much of the aid has gone toward providing weapons systems, training, and intelligence that Ukrainian commanders need to defend against Russia, which has one of the world's most powerful militaries."

In fiscal year 2022 alone, the U.S. piled $1.4 trillion onto the national debt, which is now climbing toward $32 trillion.