Mesquite, Texas – Mesquite, Texas (AP) – On a stirring construction site outside the Dallas, expected that the Congress eventually pass about $ 95 billion in foreign aid, including funding for Ukraine – because factory jobs in the United States depend on that money.
Aerospace and Defense Company General Dynamics is expected to appoint 150 people in the beginning of the new factory in the Dallas suburb Mescite. The set to open in June, is close to the completion of construction, to see one of the most busy interstate of the region with newly planted trees and bushes.
“We want to increase our wages and increase our skill levels and job opportunities,” said Kim Batram, the director of the economic development of the mesquite, who said that more than 300 jobs are expected in full production of the factory.
As the President Joe Biden has pushed the House Republican to pass the necessary assistance, he wants the voters to understand that about two-thirds of the money for about two-thirds of the $ 40 billion-urine will actually move to US factories, which are spread across countries including Lima, Ohio and Scanton, Pennsylvania as well as meskite plants.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., Has refused to place the bill on the house floor on the basis that it does not meet the needs of the American public.
Supplementary spending measures include total $ 95 billion in foreign aid, including money for Ukraine, Israel and other countries. Out of $ 60.7 billion dollars for Ukraine, $ 38.8 billion, according to data provided by the Biden administration to the Associated Press, will go to the missiles, monks and other gear -making American factories.
Biden said on Tuesday, “The bill sends military equipment to Ukraine, and Alabama, where the javelin missiles are manufactured; And Pennsylvania, Ohio and Texas, where artillery shells are made. ,
The President’s argument challenges the criticism by some Republican MPs that the federal government should spend more money at home instead of supporting foreign wars.
In this case, most of the money goes to American companies and workers, to fund weapons and gear to fund assembly lines that have already gone to Ukraine.
Democratic President Franklin is openly aired by Delano Roosevelt and reviving the concept of the World War II era that the US is a “Shastrachant of democracy”. Their sales pitch to the public is that their foreign policy is also about jobs for the American middle class.
But Biden is brushing against former President Donald Trump’s opposition, the Republican Front-Runner who climbed into the White House on the promise of reviving US manufacturing in 2016.
Trump opposes the American package to help Ukraine and openly express Russia’s desire to attack NATO allies that do not spend enough for their own budget on defense.
Many Republican in the Congress has led Trump to Trump, with the party’s rights questioning the value of American interventions around the world and long -lasting alliances after World War II.
Johnson has refused to bring a foreign aid bill for one vote as it also lacks provisions to secure the US southern border where immigrants are crossing illegally. But he first rejected a bipartite Senate bill, which provided funds to address immigration challenges, saying that the border measures would not solve the problem as he wanted.
Johnson said at a news conference last week, “The Republican -led house will not be jammed or forced to pass a foreign aid bill, protested by most Republican senators.” “This is the time for Washington to start showing some love to Americans.”
The Senate Republican leader Mich McConel, on the contrary, has repeatedly implicated his colleagues to understand that the money from the package is “here in the US” for historical investment.
“This is about the reconstruction of the arsenal of democracy,” McConel, R-Kentaki, said in a floor speech during the long days of debate, “And showing our colleagues and opponents equally that we are serious about practicing American power.”
The mescite factory rapes Lance Goeden, sitting in the Congress district of R-Texas, who told Fox Business News in a December interview that he could not tell his components that he voted for money for Ukraine, without getting money to secure the US southern border.
“I will not support any money for Ukraine, which does not include our own security measures on our own southern border,” said Gudeen. His office did not answer the questions sent to the email from the Associated Press for this story.
According to the Census Bureau, American factories sent military goods worth about 162 billion dollars last year. Shipment increased by 8.1% as compared to 2022. Supplementary funding may carry forward factory production this year.
But defense construction can be unstable. The expenditure declined between 2010 and 2015. It increased in the next four years, only to take a dip in 2021 and then in 2022 after Russia attacked Ukraine again.
The Biden administration has increased the manufacturing capacity of defense contractors, with a plan to increase the production of six times 155 mm artillery shells in three years.
According to the White House, the supplementary bill that stops in the House will expand these efforts by reviving new investments in production lines and industrial base for submarine production.
But on Friday, after the news of imprisoned Russian disgruntled Alexi Navalani, Biden again pushed the House Republican to assist in Ukraine and take a stand against Russian leader Vladimir Putin. But the house went on holiday on Thursday afternoon.
“It’s about the time when they move steps – don’t you think? – Instead of going on two weeks vacation, Biden said.” What are they thinking? My God, it’s bizarre. “
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AP chief Congress correspondent Lisa Masaro contributed to the report. Boauq reported from Washington.