"a spending spree" - the metaphor will certainly send shock-waves in Ukraine because it implies disapproval on the part of the American tax-payer who hates to see his money "wasted" on a far-away country of whose existence he discovered only recently.

US Aid to Ukraine Amounts to $900 Per American Household, Economist Says
Samantha Aschieris / @samantharenck /

August 09, 2023

Congressionally approved aid for Ukraine has cost each U.S. household hundreds of dollars, Heritage Foundation budget expert Richard Stern says.

“The formal aid packages alone amount to a staggering $113 billion—roughly $900 per American household and almost 12 times the spending cuts promised by House leadership in the annual spending bills,” Stern, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget, said in an email to The Daily Signal, Heritage’s news outlet.

“As with all new federal spending,” Stern added, “this $113 billion spending spree was added to our national debt and will cost more than $300 in interest costs per household over the decade. Of course, we’ve given more aid than that, but haven’t paid the bill on it yet.”

Congress already has greenlighted over $113 billion in “aid and military