Roger Marshall: “this has certainly been one of the most substantive debates we have had up here--very meaningful and very important to…”

“this has certainly been one of the most substantive debates we have had up here--very meaningful and very important to myself--because it exposes what our priorities are as Senators to everybody across the Nation. Today, I heard lots of arguments on why we should combine funding. People essentially want to leverage support for Israel for their own priorities. Again, there were lots of arguments on why we should combine the funding, but I didn't hear one meaningful argument that describes why we should not fund Israel singularly. Why shouldn't we just do it by itself? There is near unanimous agreement up here. This is a great opportunity to say, indeed, this is the time to support Israel. No one is abandoning Ukraine today. We are not abandoning Taiwan today. But it is interesting to me that no one talked about the concern of the corruption in Ukraine, talked about their federal government nationalizing communications companies, the fact that Poland and Hungary and other countries are leaving them and saying that they don't support the war anymore. No one is talking about peace. No one is talking about the 200,000 people who have already died in Ukraine. Are those bodies--are those people not important as well? Why isn't America leading a peace agreement? Time is of the essence. Time is of the essence.…”