Trump Pushes Ukraine Aid as a Loan With Funding Bill Stalled
- GOP frontrunner helped kill earlier border, Ukraine deal
- House speaker declines to bring new funding bill for vote
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Former President Donald Trump pushed for providing Ukraine aid as a loan as efforts to approve further assistance remain deadlocked in Congress amid a domestic fight over immigration and border policy.
“They want to give them $60 billion more,” Trump said Wednesday at a rally in North Charleston, as he campaigned before South Carolina’s Feb. 24 Republican presidential primary. “Do it this way. Loan them the money. If they can make it, they pay us back. If they can’t make it, they don’t have to pay us back.”