OPINION:
With a $34.6 trillion (and growing) national debt, the proposed $95 billion aid package that includes $60 billion to Ukraine, $14 billion to Israel, $8 billion to Taiwan and $9 billion for humanitarian aid to Gaza should be paid for by redirecting existing funding within our $6.5 trillion federal budget (“Johnson pitches aid to Ukraine, Israel as path to border security amid conservatives’ concerns,” web, April 16).
House Speaker Mike Johnson is correct that all four of these funding initiatives should be voted upon separately. Every billion sent to all four should be matched by providing a billion more to secure our own southern border with Mexico and our northern border with Canada.
The private sector and citizens must make difficult financial decisions on how to use existing resources. Americans prioritize their own family budgets. They make the difficult choices in how existing household funds will be spent. President Biden and Congress must do the same.
LARRY PENNER
Great Neck, New York
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