Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has argued that US support for Kiev and Israel is “interconnected”
The top-ranking Republican in the US Senate, Mitch McConnell, has voiced support for President Joe Biden’s plan to bundle military aid for Ukraine and Israel in a $106 billion emergency funding bill rather than allowing lawmakers to vote on the two issues separately.
“We have big power competition from China and Russia, and we still have terrorism problems, as the Israelis have certainly experienced in a brutal way in the last week,” McConnell said on Sunday in a CBS News interview. “So, I think it requires a worldwide approach, rather than trying to take parts of it out. It’s all connected.”
The Biden administration unveiled its bundled aid proposal on Friday, seeking legislative approval to provide an additional $61.4 billion for Ukraine’s conflict with Russia and $14.3 billion to support Israel in its war with Hamas. Biden…