{"id":1787534,"date":"2022-12-27T06:07:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T11:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1787534"},"modified":"2022-12-27T07:18:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T12:18:58","slug":"mcconnell-says-additional-45-billion-for-ukraine-is-morally-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-says-additional-45-billion-for-ukraine-is-morally-right\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell: Additional $45 billion for Ukraine &#8220;Morally Right&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Fmcconnell-says-additional-45-billion-for-ukraine-is-morally-right%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=1787534&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-->\n<p class=\"subheading\">Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R.KY) announced $45 billion in aid for Ukraine \u201cmorally right\u201d Christmas Eve<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContinuing our support for Ukraine is morally right, but it is not only that. It is also a direct investment in cold, hard, American interests,\u201d McConnell wrote and posted a picture of himself with Volodymyr Zilensky, Ukrainian President.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">While it is morally right that we continue to support Ukraine, it is not the only thing. It is also an investment in American cold, hard interests. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zlWoAVz3Kk\">pic.twitter.com\/zlWoAVz3Kk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Leader McConnell (@LeaderMcConnell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeaderMcConnell\/status\/1606672668719288321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>McConnell was one of 18 Senate Republicans who helped to pass an $1.7 trillion Omnibus Spending Bill that included $45 billion in Ukraine aid. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/12\/21\/omnibus-would-bring-u-s-taxpayer-funds-ukraine-110-billion-one-year\/\">passage<\/a> of the omnibus spending bill means that America has granted over $110 billion in aid to help the country\u2019s battle with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The 18 Senate Republicans are:<\/p>\n<p>  Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) Sen.\u00a0John Boozman (R-AR) Sen.\u00a0Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) Sen.\u00a0John Cornyn (R-TX) Sen. Tom\u00a0Cotton (R-AR) Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Sen. Jim\u00a0Inhofe (R-OK) Sen. Mitch\u00a0McConnell (R-KY) Sen.\u00a0Jerry Moran (R-KS) Sen. Lisa\u00a0Murkowski (R-AK) Sen. Rob\u00a0Portman (R-OH) Sen. Mitt\u00a0Romney (R-UT) Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) Sen. John Thune (R-SD) Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) Sen. Todd Young (R-IN)  <\/p>\n<p>The Omnibus spending bill does more than grant money. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/12\/20\/1-7-trillion-omnibus-would-establish-ukrainian-independence-park-in-washington-dc\/\">aid<\/a> Ukraine, but also designsates a portion of the national capital the Ukrainian Independence Park.<\/p>\n<p>Before the vote on the Omnibus, former President Donald Trump urged Republicans not to vote for the enormous bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery single Republican should vote no on the ludicrous, unacceptable $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill. It\u2019s a disaster for our country. And it also happens to be a disaster for the Republican Party because they can stop it,\u201d Trump explained it in a video posted on Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Moran<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R.KY) announced $45 billion in aid for Ukraine \u201cmorally right\u201d Christmas Eve \u201cContinuing our support for Ukraine is morally right, but it is not only that. It is also a direct investment in cold, hard, American interests,\u201d McConnell wrote and posted a picture of himself with Volodymyr Zilensky, Ukrainian President. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1787537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[9369,6962,11964,10607,7631,4484,5458,5194,3819,3953,6991],"class_list":["post-1787534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-for","tag-the","tag-morally","tag-10607","tag-additional","tag-billion","tag-bongino","tag-mcconnell","tag-report","tag-right","tag-ukraine"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787534","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1787537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}