In the days after more than half of the House GOP conference voted against providing $300 million in aid for Ukraine, Defense appropriator Mike Garcia got to work on what he describes as “a tool for the administration” to win back Republican support for arming Kyiv.
The result: a 14-page report that demanded answers from the White House on the strategy, objectives and cost projections surrounding the war against Russia, which will enter its third year come February.
Without that information, Garcia said in a Nov. 2 interview at his office, the Biden administration would fail to “get guys like me on board” moving forward. Garcia, R-Calif., was one of the 117 Republicans who voted “no” at the end of September on a stand-alone bill to allocate $300 million to the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative.
