A senior Home Republican lawmaker instructed Politico on Monday that there aren’t sufficient Republican votes to ship Ukraine extra assist.
Ukrainian chief Volodymyr Zelensky will head to the Capitol constructing on Thursday, the place he’ll foyer for extra assist for Ukraine. President Joe Biden has requested for $24 billion in navy and financial assist to Ukraine.
Home Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) predicted on Sunday that Zelensky “makes the case higher than anybody” and may very well be “very, very persuasive” in getting reluctant Republicans to again extra assist.
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One senior GOP lawmaker scoffed on the comment.
The lawmaker joked that when Turner’s “pet unicorn has offspring, I’d like to purchase one of many colts.”
“Get out of right here. That’s simply loopy. … We do not have the votes within the Republican convention to do any Ukraine funding,” the lawmaker continued.
As Zelensky strikes to request extra assist from American taxpayers, six Ukrainian deputy protection ministers had been fired following the dismissal of Minister Oleksii Reznikov in a corruption scandal.
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Politico additionally reported that Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) won’t have a one-on-one assembly with Zelensky.
Richard Stern, the director of the Heritage Basis’s finances heart, instructed Breitbart Information that the whole proposed assist to Ukraine would price $1,100 per family if one had been to incorporate Biden’s requested $24 billion in assist to Ukraine.
Based on the Federal Reserve’s 2022 Financial Properly-Being of U.S. Households, 37 % of People lack sufficient cash to cowl a $400 emergency expense, which is up from 32 % in 2021.
Breitbart Information’s Kristina Wong reported that Biden has vowed to provide survivors of the Maui fires a one-time $700 fee per family, which is lower than the help at the moment given to Ukraine.
A CNN ballot discovered {that a} majority of People, or 55 %, consider Congress mustn’t ship extra assist to Ukraine.
Sean Moran is a coverage reporter for Breitbart Information. Comply with him on Twitter @SeanMoran3.