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A $40.1 billion aid package to help arm the Ukrainian military and provide economic and humanitarian relief is on its way to President Joe Biden’s desk roughly three weeks after he asked Congress for another emergency cash infusion. The Senate voted 86-11 Thursday to clear the supplemental funding bill, with all of the “no” votes coming from Republicans. Biden is expected to sign the measure quickly, as Thursday was the day his administration anticipated Defense Department funding and “drawdown” authority to send weapons and equipment to Ukraine would run out. The outcome was preordained after a 368-57 vote in the...

A Russian defeat in Ukraine makes America safer.In April 1941 Germany had conquered all of Europe except England, while its Axis partner Japan had conquered most of Southeast Asia. At this historical moment, the Gallup Company took a poll of Americans on this question: Should America – until then a non-combatant – get involved in the war. 81% of Americans said no. But all that changed with the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7 in that same year. If the United States had not entered World War II, we would have faced a world united under Nazi rule ready...

@mtracey Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) on why he voted for the $40 billion Ukraine funding: Putin "has Stalin's taste for blood," and is "working with" China and Iran to dominate the world. "This is not just a fight for the people of Ukraine," it's a fight for "the freedom of Louisiana"