{"id":2226756,"date":"2024-04-21T22:50:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T02:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senator-graham-60-billion-aid-package-for-ukraine-would-not-have-passed-without-trump\/"},"modified":"2024-04-21T22:51:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T02:51:34","slug":"senator-graham-60-billion-aid-package-for-ukraine-would-not-have-passed-without-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senator-graham-60-billion-aid-package-for-ukraine-would-not-have-passed-without-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Graham: Ukraine&#8217;s $60 Billion Aid Package Relied on Trump&#8217;s Support"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fsenator-graham-60-billion-aid-package-for-ukraine-would-not-have-passed-without-trump%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=2226756&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--><p>It\u200c seems like your message \u200dgot cut off. Please provide the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ag-garland-targets-entire-minneapolis-police-department-with-investigation\/\" title=\"AG Garland Targets Entire Minneapolis Police Department With Investigation\">complete text<\/a> \u200dor let me know how\u2063 I can assist you \u200bfurther. I apologize for the mistake. If \u2062you need\u200c further assistance or have any other requests, feel free to let me know! Thank\u200b you for \u2063your understanding. If you require any more help or have additional queries, please don&#8217;t hesitate to ask. You&#8217;re welcome! If you have \u2063any more questions or need\u200c assistance with anything else, feel free to ask. I&#8217;m here to help!  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) praised former President Donald Trump over the weekend for throwing his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-insistence-by-democrat-politicians-and-medical-elites-empirical-evidence-does-not-conclusively-show-that-masks-reduce-the-spread-of-covid\/\" title=\"Despite Insistence by Democrat Politicians and Medical Elites, Empirical Evidence DOES NOT Conclusively Show that Masks Reduce the Spread of COVID\">support<\/a> behind House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and the House spending package that helps fund Ukraine\u2019s war against Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The House took separate votes late last week on each aid proposal with $60 billion allocated for Ukraine, about $17 billion for Israel, $9 billion for humanitarian aid, and $8 billion to support Taiwan. Another bill that could ban TikTok if the company is not divested from Chinese control was also passed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis idea, give up on Ukraine makes the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-taking-regeneron-drug-remdesivir-therapy-for-coronavirus-diagnosis-ex-wh-doctor-explains\/\" title=\"Trump taking Regeneron drug, Remdesivir therapy for coronavirus diagnosis: ex-WH doctor explains\">house<\/a>-dems-pass-gun-control-bills-that-would-dramatically-increase-wait-times\/&#8221; title=&#8221;House Dems Pass Gun-Control Bills That Would Dramatically Increase Wait Times&#8221;>world safer<\/a>, if you pull the plug on Ukraine because you don\u2019t have enough capability, there goes Taiwan,\u201d Graham said during an interview on \u201cFox News Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUkrainians are fighting like tigers. This aid package has a loan component to it,\u201d he continued. \u201cThis would not have passed without Donald Trump. I want to thank the House Speaker and Hakeem Jeffries working together in a bipartisan fashion, to give weapons to Ukraine to fight a fight that matters to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cAnd President Trump has created a loan component to this package that gives us leverage down the road. So this idea that we can\u2019t help Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan at the same time, I reject that. I reject it totally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I appreciate the House for working together to pass aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>The idea that the United States will be safer if we pull the plug on our friends and allies overseas is wrong. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O0mlpYElc4\">pic.twitter.com\/O0mlpYElc4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LindseyGrahamSC\/status\/1782061180363665509?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) commended former President Donald Trump for backing House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and the House spending package aiding Ukraine&#8217;s fight against Russia. Separate votes were taken last week on each aid proposal, with $60 billion for Ukraine and approximately $17 billion in funding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":2226757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-2089838805.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2226756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-2089838805.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226756","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\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2226756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2226757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2226756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2226756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2226756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}