{"id":1474301,"date":"2022-05-13T11:59:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T15:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1474301"},"modified":"2022-05-13T13:15:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T17:15:36","slug":"we-cannot-save-ukraine-by-dooming-the-u-s-economy-rand-paul-blocks-immediate-vote-on-billion-dollar-ukraine-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-cannot-save-ukraine-by-dooming-the-u-s-economy-rand-paul-blocks-immediate-vote-on-billion-dollar-ukraine-package\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We Cannot Save Ukraine By Dooming The U.S. Economy\u2019: Rand Paul Blocks Immediate Vote On Billion-Dollar Ukraine Package"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwe-cannot-save-ukraine-by-dooming-the-u-s-economy-rand-paul-blocks-immediate-vote-on-billion-dollar-ukraine-package%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1474301&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/RAnd-Paul.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul blocked the fast-tracking of a massive $40 billion Ukraine aid package through the Senate on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Paul objected to the move by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), with the consent of Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), to pass the bill via unanimous consent. After Paul\u2019s objection, the bill now needs to go through a number of procedural moves, but is still expected to pass sometime next week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReserving the right to object, my oath of office is to the U.S. Constitution, not to any foreign nation,\u201d Paul <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/watch-rand-paul-single-handedly-stall-passage-of-ukraine-aid-my-oath-of-office-is-to-the-constitution\/\">said<\/a> when the Senate chair asked if there were any objectors. \u201cAnd no matter how sympathetic the cause, my oath of office is to the national security of the United States of America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot save Ukraine by dooming the U.S. economy,\u201d the Republican senator added, referencing the steep increases in gas, food, and used vehicles faced by Americans. \u201cInflation doesn\u2019t just come out of nowhere, it comes from deficit spending.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paul said that it seemed like Congress was \u201cintent\u201d on \u201cadding\u201d to the pain Americans were experiencing economically \u201cby shoveling more money out the door as fast as they can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this gift to Ukraine passes, our total aid to Ukraine will almost equal the entire military budget of Russia. And it\u2019s not as if we have that money lying around, we will have to borrow that money from China to send it to Ukraine,\u201d Paul stated.<\/p>\n<p>He also claimed that the money being authorized to Ukraine was more than that spent in the first year of the Afghanistan war, collected yearly by the government in gas taxes, spent on cancer research, and the budgets for the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p>Paul also said that other European countries had stepped up to help Ukraine and that the U.S. didn\u2019t \u201calways have to be the Uncle Sam, the policeman that saves the world, particularly when it\u2019s on borrowed money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that a \u201cday of reckoning\u201d awaited if the United States did not stop its \u201cfiscal insanity\u201d before advocating for a special inspector general to look at the bill\u2019s allocation of money.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer responded to Paul\u2019s objection by saying that it was \u201cclear that [Paul] doesn\u2019t want to aid Ukraine,\u201d and that the objection will only \u201cdelay the aid\u201d and not stop it. The Democrat added that the aid was \u201cdesperately needed by a valiant people fighting against authoritarianism and defending democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday night, the military and humanitarian package passed the House by a vote of 368-57. All those opposed were Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>The bill is likely to pass the Senate next week as it has both Schumer and McConnell\u2019s backing, though several Republicans have said they would vote against the bill. According to Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mhDfMfV7Zf0\">host<\/a> Tucker Carlson, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Sen. Bill Haggerty (R-TN), Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN), and Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) said they would not vote for the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul blocked the fast-tracking of a massive $40 billion Ukraine aid package through the Senate on Thursday.Paul objected to the move by Senate Majority Leader Chuck<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1482861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1474301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}