Senators issue joint statement confirming Ukraine support

October 1, 2023

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, gives a thumbs up at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. The Senate overwhelmingly passed bipartisan legislation Saturday to avoid a disruptive US government shutdown, sending the bill to President Joe Biden for his expected signature just hours before a midnight deadline. Photographer: Anna Rose Layden/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Following a passage of a bill to avoid a government shutdown, top U.S. Senate leaders issued a rare bipartisan statement affirming their commitment to Ukraine.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and representatives of the appropriations committees said they expect the Senate will work “to ensure the U.S. government continues to provide critical and sustained security and economic support for Ukraine.”

“We support Ukraine’s efforts to defend its sovereignty against (Russian President Vladimir) Putin’s brazen aggression, and we join a strong bipartisan majority of our colleagues in this essential work,” reads the statement. “With the eyes of our partners, allies, and adversaries upon us, we keenly understand the importance of American leadership and are committed to strengthening it from Europe to the Indo-Pacific.”

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Sept. 30 that he welcomed congressional measures taken to avert “an unnecessary and destructive government shutdown that would have had a profound impact on the lives our troops and civilians who work and sacrifice to defend this country every day,” according to ABC News.

Austin urged Congress to commit to providing aid for Ukraine. “America must live up to its word and continue to lead,” Austin said.

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7 comments

  1. We still have politicians with dignity, courage, and a sense of righteousness. Those so-called conservative Republicans are neither conservative nor Republicans. Reagan and McCain would be disgusted with these kremlin assets.

  2. My God, what does the survival of 44 million Ukrainians depend on?

    Because that’s what it is. And nothing else. There is no other prospect than annihilation if support stops.

    But what do you want, Matt Gaetz and Co. are henchmen of the Muscovite satan. They will do everything to gain his favor. They love him, day and night, bomb after bomb, crime after crime! They are good Bolsheviks!

    Why just a statement if the support is so unwavering and vital? Why leave weeks of (military) uncertainty when Ukraine is in a hurry to amplify its advance on the battlefield.

    The madness of this world is that we are desperately looking for a middle ground that does not exist, when the only problem to solve is the elimination of a bastard who sleeps in the middle of the white and bloody marble of the Kremlin.

    • This world was crazy before the war started. But, since the runty fascist crime boss in the kremlin unleashed his genocidal war, much more ugliness has been exposed that even Satan has problems to stomach it all.

  3. CNN: “Gaetz says he’ll try to remove Speaker Kevin McCarthy this week”

    Remember the Gaetz circus during the McCarthy election?
    When he dealed votes for the personal interests of his rabid pack?

    It’s simple, an Orc mafia, a minority in its political camp, is waging trench warfare against American institutions and beyond, against Ukraine.

    They will not stop sowing chaos, until their (vain) hope of the return of their orange Antichrist is definitively buried.

    • Let’s all hope that the orange baboon will go to prison. Then, this house of horror show might be over.

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