Amid House Speaker Mike Johnson’s push to send more foreign aid overseas, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told Newsmax on Thursday that the United States should be focused on securing its own border instead of Ukraine’s.
“Certainly a position I’ve taken for quite some time is before we send any more money to Ukraine, for example, to secure their border, we have to secure our own,” Johnson said during an appearance on Newsmax’s “The Chris Salcedo Show.” “That was, first of all, I think what the American public expects of us. It’s a solid position. Again, it was [Senate Minority Leader Mitch] McConnell [R-Ky.] that entered the secret negotiations that ended up being a debacle that the Democrats used to a galling extent today at the hearings just talking about this bipartisan [border] bill. Let me tell you what they were looking at. Here’s a quote from [Senate Majority Leader Chuck] Schumer [D-N.Y.] after that debacle was ended. ‘We [the Democrats] were playing chess. They [the Republicans] were playing checkers, and we ended up with the Ukraine bill.’
“But here’s the real key line: ‘We also end up in a much better shape on the border than we were three months ago,’” he continued. “Now, our Democrat colleagues were talking about, ‘Oh, if we would have just done that bipartisan bill, we could have fixed this whole thing.’ Why would Schumer think, having not passed that bill, the Democrats are in better shape on the border than they were three months ago? Better shape would be we were securing the border. That’s not what they wanted. They wanted political cover and they are using that political cover. They used it today. It was just galling.”
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