Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) stated on this week’s broadcast on “Fox Information Sunday” that Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) assist package deal that included for Ukraine wouldn’t have handed the Home with out assist from former President Donald Trump.
Graham stated, “The Ukrainian navy, with our assist, has killed about 50% of the fight energy of the Russians. That is the yr of extra. They’re going to have extra weapons, however we additionally need them to have new weapons, ATACMS to knock the bride down between Crimea and Russia. They’re going to have F-16s. So, this concept quit on Ukraine makes the world safer, should you pull the plug on Ukraine trigger you don’t have sufficient functionality. There goes Taiwan.”
He continued, “Ukrainians are combating like tigers This assist package deal has a mortgage part it. This might not have handed with out Donald Trump. I need to thank the Home speaker and Hakeem Jeffries woking collectively in a bipartisan style to provide weapons to Ukraine to battle a battle that issues to us. President Trump has created a mortgage part to this package deal that provides us leverage down the street.”
Graham added, “So this concept that we are able to’t assist Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan on the similar time, I reject that. I reject it completely.”
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