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  • Schumer blasts Paul’s delay of $40B Ukraine package as ‘repugnant’

    05/18/2022 6:34:56 PM PDT · by RandFan · 35 replies
    thehill ^ | 05/18/22 11:27 AM ET | BY ALEXANDER BOLTON -
    Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday slammed Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) for delaying a $40 billion Ukraine aid package by one week, calling the move “repugnant” and predicting the legislation will pass the Senate Thursday. “This should already have been done and over with, but it is repugnant that one member of the other side, the junior senator from Kentucky, chose to make a show and obstruct Ukraine funding,” Schumer said on the Senate floor. “For Sen. Paul to delay it for purely political motives is to strengthen Putin’s hand,” he added, noting, “the vast majority of Republicans...