On the recordJune 27, 2024
My amendment would ensure that no additional military funding is authorized for the war in Ukraine. To date, Congress has appropriated $174.2 billion of American's hard- earned, taxpayer dollars in emergency supplemental funding for Ukraine. Of this amount, about $116 billion, 67 percent, has been provided through the U.S. Department of Defense. While our southern border is invaded by murderers, rapists, and terrorists, the Biden administration cares more about protecting the borders of Ukraine than the country he swore to protect and that many people in this body swore to protect. Now, Ukraine is using American weapons to bomb civilian beaches in Russian territory. Ukraine is recruiting an untold number of their own men in Ukraine to fight in this war that they cannot win. Anyone that says Ukraine can win is being completely dishonest. We know how Russia will respond to this aggression because they already are. Just recently, we saw reports of Russian warships off the coast of Florida in the Caribbean. How much longer will the United States provoke Russia before we fall into world war III, or have American boots on the ground in Ukraine, which the American people do not support? As a matter of fact, over half of America thinks that the U.S. is not only spending too much money to help Ukraine, they disagree with the war.…





