President Joe Biden visited a Lockheed Martin manufacturing facility in Alabama hailing the effort to send Javelin anti-tank missile systems to Ukraine.
“I’m once more urging Congress to quickly pass the supplemental funding bill for over $300 billion to help the Ukrainians so they can keep — they can keep all of the very, very — all of you very, very busy for a while here,” Biden said after touring the facility.
The president is actually asking for $30 billion for the war effort, but he said “$300 billion” twice during his speech and did not correct his mistakes.
Biden also mistakenly said that the United States had armed Russia with Javelins.
“Before Russia attacked, we made sure Russia had Javelins and other weapons to strengthen their defenses so Ukraine was ready for whatever happened,” he said, without correcting himself.
