Political Quotes

“Thank you, Mr. President. I didn't know what type of security situation there was there. So we felt that we had better just pause as well. So if we were talking about Taiwan, I think we can compare Taiwan to where Ukraine was a couple of years ago. We begged this administration to arm Ukraine so that they could protect themselves. If we could have gotten them those A-10 Warthogs--think about how that war would have changed if Ukraine had these A-10 Warthogs, as all of these Russian supply automobiles were stuck there trying to enter from the north. There is so much more that we could have done. It seems like this White House has just slow-walked the entire response. So, yes, I think many of us agree that we should help arm Taiwan to make them a porcupine. And, by the way, they have been a great ally, too, a great business partner. They seem to be a good player, a country that we greatly respect and want to help protect. But, at the end of the day, when you bundle this funding without giving us our own border security, that doesn't make much sense to us. And, of course, there is funding in here for humanitarian aid as well, I think to the tune of--goodness, I think it is close to $10 billion for humanitarian aid. This is in addition to what we typically are doing. We would remind everybody that USAID has a budget of over $60 billion a year, that we are all doing much of this humanitarian work already.…”