Defense Sec. Esper declines to say if he knew of political considerations regarding President Trump's hold on Ukraine aid.
Esper said there were"technical and legal issues" preventing the Pentagon from providing Congress with the requested documents pertaining to the hold on military aid.for Ukraine to investigate the Bidens and Democrats. The administration released the aid two days after Congress became aware of a formal whistleblower complaint regarding Trump's actions toward Ukraine..
"One, was the aid necessary and vital to the Ukrainians in terms of defending against Russia?" he said."No. 2, had the Ukrainians addressed corruption? And that was a congressional concern. And No. 3, were other countries in the region, other allies and partners, assisting them? And, given those three things, we decided to support the provision of Ukrainian aid."
"At the end of the day, the bottom line is most of that aid got out on time and at no time did it have any impact on United States national security," he said., roughly $35 million of that congressionally appropriated aid to Ukraine went unspent as the end of the fiscal year — Sept. 30 — neared. Congress passed a bill days before that deadline to ensure that the appropriation would not expire.
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