Anna Schecter is a senior producer in the NBC News Investigations Unit.
Hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of frozen Russian government assets are sitting in banks across the U.S. and Europe and on Saturday a vote is expected in the House of Representatives that would pave the way for President Joe Biden to confiscate billions of them and hand it over to Ukraine. “Somebody has to pay for reconstruction,” said former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, a proponent of using the Russian assets to help Ukraine, in an interview Friday.
The idea to confiscate the Russian assets emerged last year and has been hotly contested by economists and foreign policy experts. In a recent op-ed in the New York Times, contributing opinion writer Christopher Caldwell argued that it’s a “terrible idea” to confiscate the Russian funds because other countries might stop investing in the U.S. which could negatively affect the economy in the long run. “This could weaken the dollar’s status as the main global reserve currency.
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