The party’s Senate leader, Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), is being exposed by a prominent Republican senator regarding the latest foreign aid funding bill in the Senate. This bill aims to allocate tens of billions more in U.S. tax dollars to Ukraine. During a Twitter Spaces session, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) revealed that McConnell and over a dozen other Republican senators supported a $95 billion “foreign aid” package, with $60.1 billion designated for Ukraine. This decision comes at a time when a growing majority of Americans, as indicated by national polling, have expressed their opposition to sending additional tax dollars to the war-torn country. This sentiment is particularly strong considering the ongoing domestic issues, such as the chaotic southwestern border situation.
“When we entered this thing, McConnell said his top priority was funding for Ukraine. But public opinion and the very strong political rhetoric that we ought to secure our own border before we spend $60 billion to secure Ukraine’s was effective. And so McConnell finally switched and said, ‘OK, we’ve got to let Democrats know that we are serious. We are going to defeat closure on this bill, and we are going to demand that border security is going to