FLASHBACK: Lindsey Graham Insisted Biden Must Do ‘More’ for Ukraine Before Voting Against Aid Package – By Isaac Schorr (Mediaite) / Feb 14 2024
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) voted against a foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan earlier this week after previously suggesting that the Biden administration needed to more to help the Ukrainian war effort.
In a statement released on Monday night, Graham said that while he had “been saying for months that helping Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan are extremely important national security imperatives for the United States,” he would be voting against the package because “we must deal with our border first.”
Graham went on to suggest that “the supplemental aid package should be a loan to the countries in question.”
Notably, a compromise deal to fund both the trio of countries and help secure the border was negotiated by Senators James Lankford (R-OK), Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), and Chris Murphy (R-CT) before it was rejected by Republicans in both chambers of Congress.
