U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) raised the alarm over a bill that would send billions of U.S. dollars to Ukraine, telling Tucker Carlson that he and other lawmakers are doing everything they can to “kill” the legislation.
In Episode 74 of Carslon’s show on X, the senator detailed the red flags in funding Ukraine’s war and what is being done to derail what he called out as “political calculation” in the bill.
Carlson kicked off the episode on Monday with an assessment of the futility of funding Ukraine’s ongoing war with Russia, saying “It’s not simply a fool’s errand, it’s self-destruction. It’s insane, it’s cruel, it’s abetting the killing of an entire generation of Ukrainians,” as he noted the nation doesn’t have the manpower or the “industrial capacity” to continue to withstand Russian forces.
He also called out the Ukrainian government as “both corrupt and authoritarian.”
Ep. 74 The Ukrainian government canceled elections and killed an American journalist. Congress is about send them another $60 billion. J.D. Vance is trying to stop it. pic.twitter.com/x6mQFfuZFL
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) February 12, 2024
“They’ve canceled elections, they banned an entire Christian denomination, and then they killed an American journalist for noting any of this,” Carlson said. “And yet the United States Senate proposed, under Mitch McConnell, a plan to send another $60 billion to Ukraine.”
Vance laid out the details of the measure ahead of voting that ended up taking place early Tuesday morning. The Senate passed the $95.3 billion foreign aid bill, which includes aid for Ukraine and Israel, in a 70 to 29 vote with 22 Republicans – including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell – voting in favor.
“That’s part of what I’m trying to do is notify people about how bad this legislation is so that after it clears the Senate, if it does, then it goes to the House and the House has a real opportunity to at least make it better, but hopefully kill it,” Vance told Carlson.
After slamming the “terrible, terrible piece of legislation,” the senator told Carlson that the funding is not just for this year but will continue into the term of the next elected president.
“So if Trump is elected President again and becomes President on January of 2025, he will conduct diplomacy. And if that diplomacy does not include sending additional billions to Ukraine, there is a theoretical argument, a predicate, if you will, for impeaching Donald Trump because they have tried to tie his hands,” Vance explained.
“The final point I’ll make on this, Tucker, is that The Washington Post has already said, based on leaks from inside the intel community, the purpose of this legislation is to tie a future President Trump’s hands,” he added.
This is insane https://t.co/tKgaz0pSBZ
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 12, 2024
“We’re not just sending billions to Ukraine in 2024. We’re trying to make it impossible for the next President to conduct diplomacy on his terms. It’s antidemocratic, and it will lead to endless war all over the world,” he warned, adding that “the political calculation behind this seems incredibly dark.”
He also drew attention to the “humanitarian effect” of continued funding, calling out members of Congress who do not seem concerned with the number of Ukrainian casualties as a result of the war.
Vance laid out damning claims about the Ukraine government’s “propaganda” and the views of the nation’s own population.
At the same time that world leaders play armchair general with the Ukraine conflict, their own societies are decaying.
Not a single country – not even the US – within the NATO alliance has birthrates at replacement level. We don’t have enough families and children to continue as… pic.twitter.com/reevZmymvA
— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) February 12, 2024
“So the idea that this is unanimously supported by the Ukrainian population is, of course, preposterous and absurd,” he said, adding that it is, in fact, “fundamentally in the interests of military contractors and people who think that America’s most pressing challenge is to defeat the Russians.”
“Of course, that’s not a preoccupation that I share. I don’t think Russia should have invaded Tucker, but I also think that we got to be much more focused on more pressing problems like the demographic collapse of the United States, like the open borders, and like what’s going on in East Asia. It’s a massive campaign, Tucker, to distract people from the real problems in the world and the real problems that exist in this country,” Vance asserted.
This morning the America last caucus got a $61 billion aid package out of the Senate. But they paid dearly for this small win. The House won’t pass the current bill.
We must fix our country before devoting more resources to Ukraine.
That’s our message, and the fight goes on.
— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) February 13, 2024
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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