Several Republican senators engaged in a marathon of speeches in a last-ditch effort to halt $61 billion in new aid to Ukraine from passing the Senate, but came up short Tuesday morning.
“Open the champagne. Pop the cork. The Senate Democrat leader and Republican leader are on their way to Kyiv,” Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said, citing Ukraine’s capital in a Senate floor speech and butting heads with the senior senator from his state, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who is among the strong advocates of more U.S. aid to Ukraine.
The bulk of the $95 billion foreign aid package, about $61 billion, would go to Ukraine as the country continues to fend off the Russian invasion. U.S. aid also would go to Israel and Taiwan.
“They’ve got $60 billion they are bringing. I don’t know if it will be cash in pallets, but they are taking your money to Kyiv,”…
