US lawmaker calls for inspector general to investigate Ukraine spending

WASHINGTON

Sen. Josh Hawley, a vocal Republican, said he will introduce legislation to track US dollars sent to Ukraine in its war with Russia.

"It’s time for a special inspector general dedicated to auditing EVERY PENNY spent on Ukraine," Hawley wrote Tuesday on X.

"I will again introduce on the floor of the Senate legislation to create a watchdog whose *sole responsibility* is auditing every dollar spent on Ukraine - and reporting back to the American people," he added.

Tension has risen between Washington and Kyiv after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused US President Donald Trump of living in a Russian "space of disinformation."

Trump, for his part, called Zelenskyy a "modestly successful comedian" who "talked the United States of America into spending $350 Billion Dollars, to go into a War that couldn’t be won, that never had to start, but a War that he, without the U.S. and ‘TRUMP,’ will never be able to settle."

"A Dictator without Elections, Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left," Trump wrote on Truth Social.