Providing Ukraine with weapons and other U.S. aid as it fends off a Russian invasion is rooted in the earliest and most formative political memories of the two top Republicans in Congress
For Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Mike Johnson, the necessity of providing Ukraine with weapons and other aid as it fends off Russia's invasion is rooted in their earliest and most formative political memories. McConnell, 82, tells the story of his father’s letters from Eastern Europe in 1945, at the end of World War II, when the foot soldier observed that the Russians were “going to be a big problem” before the communist takeover to come.
Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, who opposed the bill. He said the legislation 'undermines America's interests abroad and paves our nation's path to bankruptcy.” Johnson has been lauded by much of Washington for doing what he called “the right thing' at a perilous moment for himself and the world. “He is fundamentally an honorable person,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
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