GOP Rep. Biggs quips U.S. trying to make Ukraine '51st state' amid talk of more aid

Arizona Republican Rep. Andy Biggs on Monday fumed over reports that Washington was working with Ukraine on a 10-year aid plan, even after Congress approved a $61 billion aid package.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky this week revealed that his government was working on a "bilateral security agreement" that would fix "specific levels of support for this year and for the next ten years."

"I didn't know that we were trying to annex Ukraine as a 51st state," he said on the "John Solomon Reports" podcast. 

"I mean, this is how absurd this has become. You know, we we've spent something like 42% of the money is actually gone on military, you know, to go on target," he went on. "The rest of it has gone to supply their pensions, their farm subsidies, their government operations, a significant portion of it is just gone to the wind. We have no idea where it went the same with the some of the material."

"I mean... I thought that the the Democrat-Republican coalition that that Speaker Johnson put together, I thought they gave us an outrageous product a week or so ago," Biggs continued. "And I would just tell you, it takes amazing chutzpah on the part of President Zelensky to come back and say, 'Oh, we're gonna do this again for 10 years.' What? What do you what are you talking about?"

President Joe Biden last week signed a $95 billion aid package that included $61 billion for Ukraine, after Congress approved a package of bills splitting the Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan aid components with the support of House Speaker Mike Johnson.

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