McConnell gently pushes back on Johnson's plan to separate Israel and Ukraine aid: 'we do so at our own peril'
McConnell supports Biden’s Israel and Ukraine aid bundle, hopes for ‘functional’ HouseGovernment set to shut down after House’s stopgap spending bill goes ‘down in flames’While refraining from directly calling out the GOP ploy, McConnell said in remarks from the Senate floor that the US would be naïve to ignore how the crises are connected.
“The Biden administration’s defense budget requests have systematically ignored these growing threats,” McConnell added. “The president’s supplemental request to address multiple crises that unfolded on his watch, is a recognition of this failure.”Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson has publicly called for the Ukraine and Israel components to be “bifurcated” as he grapples with a GOP conference skeptical of further support to Kyiv.
“We can’t allow Vladimir Putin to prevail in Ukraine because I don’t believe it would stop there and it would probably encourage China to make a move on Taiwan,” Johnson told Fox News’ Sean Hannity in an interview last week. “We’re not going to abandon them.”Mike Johnson won applause from GOP hardliners when he agreed to push for a standalone bill to address the war in Ukraine.
In contrast with Democrats, McConnell has a more delicate dance to perform, simultaneously advocating for more foreign security aid while avoiding alienating more isolationist members of his conference.
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