McConnell Predicts Congress Will Keep Funding Ukraine’s Defense
- Republican leader urges Biden to accelerate weapons deliveries
- McConnell seeks to protect GOP’s hawkishness on foreign policy
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Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell predicted US funding to support Ukraine’s military will continue to flow despite growing calls from isolationist members of his own party to reduce or end aid to Kyiv.
“I do think that we have enough support within Congress to sustain this for a good deal longer,” McConnell said. “All the leadership in the House and Senate in my party is very much in favor of defeating the Russians.”