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on Monday for more than one hour to slam efforts to rush through tens of millions of dollars in additional funding for Ukraine’s stalemate war against Russia.
“It funds Ukraine to the tune of another $61 billion,” Vance explained, saying the bills fail to “meaningfully address the problems that we have within our own defense industrial base.” Lee also slammed the bills’ proponents for defeating an effort led by Sen. Rand Paul to increase accountability and oversight of the aid to the notoriously corrupt Ukrainian government through appointment of an inspector general.
Supporters of yet more aid to Ukraine can not admit the reality that the war is not winnable for Ukraine, Vance continued. “They can’t admit that this isn’t going well because if they admitted that, it would cause too much psychological harm, and they’d have to cut bait.” aily strengthening of the military alliance between Russia and China, which, when combined, is the single greatest increase for the risk of World War III that we’ve seen in the post-World War II era.”If the foreign aid passes the Senate, as is expected, the House must still act. Speaker Mike Johnson would likely face a rebellion from members of the Republican conference if he brought the bill to the floor.