President Joe Biden’s plan to continue military aid for Ukraine has the makings of a political ambush, timed to coincide with the 2024 election season and set at the expense of the Ukrainian war effort, according to congressional Republican sources.
“Cynics would say they're not really committed to Ukraine and they're hoping they can extract themselves and blame Republicans for it,” Sen. Marco Rubio , a senior member of the intelligence and foreign relations committees, told the Washington Examiner. “I would hope that isn't the case.
“I think that number is too high. There’s things to shave off of it,” he said. “That includes everything — that includes support for Ukrainian government operations, that includes humanitarian stuff. ... That includes replenishing our own stockpiles. ... That’s holistically. And it's also based on the assumption that this [war] will continue on the same pace and scale for the next 12 months.”
That’s an implausible complaint, from the perspective of Democratic lawmakers conscious that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s demand that “not another penny will go to Ukraine” has growing support on the right. “I think Biden has backed us into a stalemate,” a House Republican lawmaker told the Washington Examiner."And he's gonna find every way he can to try to shift blame but tuck it into this narrative [that] Democrats support democracy and MAGA Republicans don’t."
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