A senior Republican lawmaker in the House said Politics On Monday, Republican votes were not enough to send more aid to Ukraine.
Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky will. The head Thursday at the Capitol building, where he will lobby for more aid to Ukraine. President Joe Biden has asked for $24 billion in military and economic aid for Ukraine.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) predicted Sunday that Zielinski “makes the case better than anybody” and could be “very, very persuasive” in getting Republicans reluctant to support more aid. Is.
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A senior GOP lawmaker scoffed at the comment.
When Turner’s “pet unicorns have offspring, I’d like to buy one of those babies,” the lawmaker joked.
“Get out of here. This is just crazy. … We don’t have the votes at the Republican conference to fund Ukraine,” the lawmaker continued.
As Zelenskiy moves to request more aid from US taxpayers, six Ukrainian deputy defense ministers have been fired following the dismissal of minister Oleksii Reznikov in a corruption scandal.
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Politics It also reported that Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) would not meet with Zielinski one-on-one.
Richard Stern, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Budget Center, told Breitbart News that if Biden requested $24 billion in aid for Ukraine, the total proposed aid cost to Ukraine would be $1,100 per household.
According to the Federal Reserve’s 2022 economic well-being of U.S. households, 37 percent of U.S lack of That’s enough money to cover $400 in emergency expenses, up 32 percent in 2021.
Christina Wong of Breitbart News reports that Biden has pledged to give Maui fire survivors a one-time payment of $700 per household, which is less than the aid currently being given to Ukraine.
A CNN poll found that a majority of Americans, or 55 percent, believe Congress should not send more aid to Ukraine.
Sean Moran is a policy reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter. @SeanMoran3.
