Gifts for Putin? "Republicans in Congress are willing to give Putin the greatest gift he could hope for," said President Joe Biden this week, in response to fiscal conservatives holding up a spending package that would dole out $110 billion in funding for Ukraine.
Republicans are saying that addressing the situation at the southern border is a necessary prerequisite, something that Biden must prioritize if he wants Ukraine aid approved. Biden said his political opponents, in opposing that massive chunk of government spending, "are playing chicken with our national security" but that he is also interested in "mak[ing] significant compromises on the border," if that's what is deemed necessary to get Ukraine money approved.
