Senate Republicans eager to ram Ukraine funding through the upper chamber are just as eager to dismiss their voters as dimwitted and “shortsighted.”
“Our base cannot possibly know what’s at stake at the level that any well-briefed U.S. senator should know about what’s at stake if Putin wins,” said North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis, according to Punchbowl News Monday.
New — Senate GOP Ukraine hawks dig in
Tillis: “Our base cannot possibly know what’s at stake at the level that any well-briefed U.S. senator should know about what’s at stake if Putin wins”
McConnell slams “dimmest & most shortsighted views” of criticshttps://t.co/Of8uWaikLR
— Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) February 12, 2024
Senate lawmakers spent the weekend advancing another $61 billion to Kyiv following last week’s embarrassing rejection of a bipartisan compromise bill that threatened to codify the invasion on the southern border. The more than $95 billion foreign spending package headed for passage in the upper chamber sends money to Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel. If cleared, House Speaker Mike Johnson faces an uphill battle to split the bill with a narrow majority.
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According to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, Congress approved $113 billion for the proxy war against Russia in 2022. A November NBC News survey found just 35 percent of Republican voters support additional funds for Ukraine. Another poll from Gallup out the same month shows a plurality of Americans believe the U.S. is doing too much to prop up Kyiv, with
