JD VanceRepublican PartyWeapons and military aid
End US funding of the war in Ukraine
“We're done with the funding of the Ukraine war business. We want to bring about a peaceful settlement to this thing,”
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Where it stands
Allies buy US weapons for Ukraine through NATO's PURL scheme. The defense authorization the President signed on 18 December 2025 authorizes $400 million a year for Ukraine in fiscal 2026 and 2027.
What has happened
- Promised. The Vice President says the US is done funding the war
- Restated. The Vice President says the US no longer buys weapons to send to Ukraine evidence
More detail
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Checks
- Version 1, 20 October 2026: Quote checked word for word at its source on 21 October 2026
- Approved by Pavel Guzhikov, editor, on 21 October 2026: Approved for the first publication on the AI Journalist's check.
- Checked by AI Journalist (automated) on 21 October 2026: Quote checked word for word at its source; dates, events, evidence links, figures and wording checked against the cited sources, with fixes made before publication.
Related promises
- RepublicansMake weapons for Ukraine, sent through NATO“So, in a nutshell, we're going to make top-of-the-line weapons, and they'll be sent to NATO.”
- RepublicansPatriot systems for Ukraine within days“Well, we're going to have some come very soon, within days, actually, because a couple of the countries that have Patriots are going to swap over, and we'll replace the Patriots with the ones they have.”
- UK£2.26bn UK loan repaid from Russian asset profits“The new £2.26 billion is the UK’s contribution to the G7 Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration (ERA) Loans to Ukraine scheme, in which $50 billion from G7 countries will be delivered to Ukraine for its military, budget and reconstruction needs.”