President Donald Trump, while sailing trying to end the Russian-Ukraine War, is repeatedly making false statements about the amount of help that the United States has provided to support Ukraine.
He did it when he met with French president Emmanuel Macron in the White House on Monday to discuss negotiations to end the three -year conflict.
“The United States has presented much more help for Ukraine than any other nation, hundreds of billions of dollars,” Trump said. “We have spent more than $ 300 billion, and Europe has spent about $ 100 billion. That is a big difference.”
Later, in response to a question about whether the United States would help with the reconstruction in Ukraine after the war, Trump said: “We are there for about $ 350 billion. I think it is a fairly large contribution.”
President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on February 24, 2025.
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It is not the first time that Trump said that the United States has spent $ 350 billion in Ukraine, although he has not summoned where that figure has received.
Despite such reports otherwise, Trump repeated the false claim in the Oval office on Tuesday afternoon. He said that former President Joe Biden “spent money as no one has seen: $ 350 billion.”
Government resources place the amount of supplementary funds appropriate by Congress from the invasion of Ukraine in 2022 of Russia in Ukraine at $ 174 billion, which includes not only support for Ukraine but also for other countries affected by the conflict, parking additional NATO troops and more.
According to him Congress Research ServiceLegislators approved five laws related to the conflict between 2022 and 2024.
The financing was in the first bipartisan, but as Russia’s invasion continued, many Republicans began talking about the United States was doing too much to support Ukraine and aligned with the letter of Trump’s “America First” Foreign Policy.
How much money the Congress has approved to help Ukraine.
Congress Research Service
Ukraine supervision, the website The Special Inspector of Operation Atlantic created years ago to track Ukraine assistance, states that the amount is a bit higher at $ 182 billion.
This figure includes the $ 174 billion assigned by Congress and additional funds assigned to specific agencies. According to the site, $ 83 billion have been disbursed and another $ 57 billion bound, with approximately $ 40 billion assigned but not yet obliged.
As for Trump’s statement that the United States has spent more than Europe, that is not accurate.
The Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a German -based research group that Track support From foreign governments to Ukraine, he estimates that the United States has assigned around $ 119 billion. The reason why the estimate is different from the US government data, the Institute ExplainIt is due to the fact that it only includes direct help to Ukraine, not the appropriate money in the bills related to Ukraine but are not bilateral, such reserves of American weapons or aid refugees.
In comparison, Kiel discovered that European nations have assigned around $ 138 billion to Ukraine.
Government support for Ukraine by numbers.
KIEL INSTITUTE FOR THE WORLD ECONOMY
The exaggeration of Trump’s help to Ukraine occurs when his administration promotes an agreement that gives access to the United States to the profits of the valuable mineral resources of Ukraine. Trump has demanded the agreement as a way that Ukraine pays American help during the war.
“It seems that we are approaching a lot,” Trump said Monday. “I think we are very close to obtaining an agreement in which we will recover our money for a period of time.”
