Bipartisan Quartet Offers Bill to Establish Federal Watchdog Over US Aid to Ukraine

A bipartisan quartet of senators want Congress to create an Inspector General with broad authority to conduct comprehensive oversight investigations of how U.S. military and civilian assistance to Ukraine has been administered and whether the aid served the purpose for which it was given.
“Americans are supporting Ukraine’s brave work to beat back Russia by providing at least $113 billion in aid and military equipment. This is not an act of charity. It’s bolstering our own national security,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said in a Feb. 28 statement announcing the proposal.
The title of the bill is the Independent and Objective Oversight of Ukrainian Assistance Act. Kennedy introduced the same proposal in May 2022 in the 117th Congress, but it failed to be moved forward in the Senate. Rep. Robert J. Wittman (R-Va.) introduced a companion bill in the House but, like Kennedy’s version in the Senate, the proposal went nowhere in the lower chamber of Congress….}