Warner: Military equipment will be ‘in transit’ to Ukraine by next week if Biden signs bill
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Mark Warner (D-Va.), the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on Sunday said U.S. shipments of long-range missiles “will be in transit” to Ukraine next week as long as
President Biden signs the foreign aid bill.
“I hope once the President signs, we’ve been told that there is it is the President signature, making sure Congress does its job that these materials will be in transit by the end of the week,” Warner said Sunday on CBS News’s “Face the Nation.”
“And on that schedule, what it will do is it’s clearly been the case that the Ukrainians morale has been great, but it’s been undermined over the last couple of months, when they have been literally given out rationed bullets, eight to 10 bullets a day,” he added. “And on artillery shells, Russians ten to one, you can’t underestimate that Ukrainians’ grit, determination, but if they don’t have the materials, they can’t carry this fight to the Russians.”
Warner noted it is written in the legislation that long-range ATACMS missiles will be given to Kyiv should the bill pass in the Senate and head to Biden’s desk.
“The ATACMS- I believe the administration was prepared over the last couple of months to prepare or to provide ATACMS. It is written into this legislation,” Warner said.
The House on Saturday passed a long-sought foreign aid package that includes about $61 billion for Ukraine, $26 billion for Israel and $8 billion for allies in the Indo-Pacific. It also includes a package of other national security measures, among those a potential ban on the TikTok app.
The package now heads to the Senate, which is expected to pass it in the middle of next week.
The package comes after months of warnings from the Biden administration that Ukraine will struggle against Russian forces without any supplemental aid passed by Congress. Sharp divisions among lawmakers have stalled aid from passing for more than a year, with mostly far-right lawmakers expressing concern about continuing to fund Ukraine.
Congress has not passed a Ukraine aid package since the end of 2022, and all available funds dried up around the end of 2023, leaving Kyiv in a perilous position with depleting air defenses and artillery, both crucial in the war.
Russia has advanced on the battlefield across eastern Ukraine, seizing the town of Avdiivka in February and threatening to seize Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk region.
Warner on Sunday argued the U.S. needs to be “prepared” for its own national security interests and pointed to Russia’s links to China, Iran, and potentially North Korea.
“I know the terminology used to be Axis of Evil, this may be the 2024 Axis of Evil combination of nations,” he said.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on Sunday said U.S. shipments of long-range missiles “will be in transit” to Ukraine next week as long as Presi…
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Fawning over the GOP.
Greene response to bi-partisan criticism: ‘The American people agree with me’
Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo confronted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, questioning her actions’ impact on the GOP’s ability to govern and reelect President Trump.
In a Sunday interview on Fox’s Sunday Morning Futures, Bartiromo pressed Greene over the criticism she has received over her repeated threats to oust Speaker Mike Johnson.
“You’re getting criticized on the left on the right, in the media, a lot of people are criticizing you. And the reason that they are is because they’re saying that you’re creating drama during this election year,” Bartiromo said. “How is this leading to reelecting President Trump? How is this leading to the American people believing that the Republicans can govern? People are saying Look, she’s creating chaos. She’s making the entire party look like it’s disrupted your reaction and response to those criticisms?”
Greene refuted the claims stating that, “Those that are calling this drama are the very people that are responsible for the drama that the American people are having to live through every single day.”
She continued, “The people criticizing me are not the American people. The American people agree with me, and I’ve talked to them, and I’ve seen it all over. They are outraged and what they’re saying is they don’t want to vote for Republicans anymore… The Republican Party in charge right now it’s no different than the Democrat party.”
Bartiromo also questioned Greene over why she did not file a motion to vacate the speaker’s chair after the House passed an additional $95 billion in new foreign aid, $60 billion of which is going to Ukraine on Saturday.
“I’ve been responsible with this the entire time. I support our majority, and I support having the majority in 2025,” Green said.
However, Greene clearly stated her disapproval of the bill.
“And then once this bill was passed, the American people saw on their television screens and social media all over where Congress was waving the Ukrainian flag on the United States House of Representatives floor. All of this was possible because of the betrayals of Mike Johnson,” she said.
Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo confronted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, questioning her actions’ impact on the GOP’s ability to govern and reelect President Trump. In a Sunday interview…
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