Sen. Dan Sullivan wants to reframe aid for Ukraine by deemphasizing the Ukraine part.
One of the fault lines dividing Congress is whether to continue aid for Ukraine as it defends itself from Russia. A number of hard-right Republicans say no, and they say they’re willing to shut down the government over it. Alaska’s Republican senators aren’t among them.“It’s not Ukraine. What I’ve been trying to do is make the case that it’s defeating authoritarian aggression,” he said Wednesday as he boarded a Senate elevator.
“So that’s what I’ve been working on – border security, which is critical, and broadening the aperture and looking at our national security threats, not just Ukraine,” he said. Like Sullivan, Sen. Lisa Murkowski also sees border funding as helpful to winning congressional approval for aid to Ukraine. The work is negotiating those items into the annual spending bills to keep the government running, or maybe in a separate supplemental. It’s a tall order. Murkowski is frustrated that three spending bills, strapped together in what’s known as a minibus, has been stalled for a month.
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