Josh Hawley Talks Foreign Aid Packages: 'Let's Do Israel First' And Have 'Debate About Ukraine'
U.S. Senators discuss possible aid packages for Israel and Ukraine.
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00:00 We have a debate about Ukraine.
00:02 My views on that are well known.
00:03 But let's not slow down the Israel aid package.
00:06 They're in the middle of what their prime minister is calling their second war of independence.
00:10 So let's get them the aid they need, and then we can debate Ukraine.
00:13 I know colleagues want to debate the border.
00:15 Some want to debate Taiwan.
00:17 So that's great.
00:18 But let's do Israel first.
00:23 We need to support our friends in Israel.
00:26 We need to have real border security for our own safety.
00:30 We need to upgrade Taiwan's defense to deter China.
00:33 We also need to make sure Putin is stopped in Ukraine, defeated in Ukraine.
00:39 My goal is to do all of those things.
00:44 Well I think we need to continue to support Ukraine's effort to stop Russia.
00:50 Russia is an adversary.
00:51 They represent a national security threat to the United States.
00:54 So I support that.
00:56 How that gets done is another question.
00:57 My understanding is they're looking at some IRS funding.
01:01 There are a lot of us who thought that the $87 billion we put toward the IRS, or that
01:06 they put toward the IRS in the Inflation Reduction Act, was dollars that should have been spent
01:11 somewhere else anyway.
01:12 We're going to do the Israel aid package, and we're going to do the Gaza humanitarian
01:18 aid package, and we're going to do the Ukraine.
01:20 But if you cut that IRS, what you're going to do is then you're also dramatically going
01:23 to cut revenue, so you're going to deepen your - they're claiming to do this for trying
01:28 to make the math work, but you're going to deepen your math problem, not solve it.
01:32 We've seen the votes on the floor of the House, and we know the votes are there for Ukraine
01:35 aid.
01:36 So it is not something the Speaker currently supports, and some others don't, but a bipartisan
01:41 majority of the House does.
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