President Joe Biden is ready to negotiate with Republicans over military aid to Ukraine, arguing that withholding funding strengthens Putin’s position.
Republicans are focused on border security, however, and demand a fix to the immigration system.
“We can’t let Putin win,” Biden said. (Trending: Elon Musk Condemns Arrest Of Jan 6 Protester)
“Any disruption in our ability to supply Ukraine clearly strengthens Putin’s position. We’ve run out of money to be able to do that.”
“Extreme Republicans are playing chicken with our national security, holding Ukraine’s funding hostage to their extreme partisan border policies,” Biden said.
“I support real solutions at the border … and I’m willing to do significantly more. I’m willing to change policy as well.”
“Lankford is a decent guy. It looked like he was prepared to move in a way, in a direction that we could come up with a compromise both changing in substance — changing policy on the border as well as security at the border. But they’ve walked away.”
“It’s time to resolve this,” Lankford said seperately.
“Everyone has been very, very clear on this to say we’re standing firm.”
“We’re completely out of control at our southern border. It’s time to resolve this,” Lankford pressed.
“We as Republicans are actually listening to the American people to say absolutely — if we’re going to do national security, it starts with American national security.”
“Yesterday, there were 12,080 crossings in a single day — 12,000 crossings. That’s an all-time record high. We’ve seen the numbers continue to skyrocket,” Lankford said.
“The administration literally has no ability to be able to manage the border, no willingness to be able to manage the border.”
“Those people are saying the same thing that I hear from people over and over again when I’m at the border, ‘I’m coming for opportunity. I’m coming for a job. I’m coming to be able to have a better life.’ That is not asylum. They don’t qualify for asylum,” Lankford added.
“Many of them don’t even have documents. They just walk in and say what country they’re from and say what their name is, and they take on a brand new identity here in the United States.”
Meanwhile, aid packages to Ukraine are dwindling, with discussions on bolstering Ukraine’s military capabilities.
“As this committee knows, 702 allows us to stay a step ahead of foreign actors located outside the United States who pose a threat to national security. And the expiration of our 702 authorities would be devastating to the FBI’s ability to protect Americans from those threats,” FBI director Christopher Wray said.
“When it comes to foreign adversaries like Iran, whose actions across a whole host of threats have grown more brazen, seeking to assassinate high-level officials, kidnap dissidents, and conduct cyberattacks here in the United States, or the People’s Republic of China, which poses, in my view, a generational threat to our economic and national security, stripping the FBI of its 702 authorities would be a form of unilateral disarmament.”
The V-22 Osprey fleet is grounded after a fatal crash, and the Justice Department has indicted four Russian nationals for war crimes against an American in Ukraine.
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