Dick Durbin: “We urge you to obligate Congressionally appropriated FY26 funds in Public Law 119-75 for Ukraine and the Baltic Security…”

Changes of this magnitude with no discernible justification must be scrutinized.

To leave here without this being a law finalized to protect these young people … is painful, really painful. I don’t want them to feel like I’m abandoning them.

These changes threaten to undermine the work of the FBI and pose a grave risk to the Bureau’s integrity.

For decades, America has stood as the bastion of freedom against tyranny, and American presidents have embodied our nation’s resistance to tyrants. Putin is a tyrant.