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Rand Paul Issues Ultimatum: Withdraw Ukraine Billions Or Face Government Shutdown
• INFOWARSSenator Rand Paul declared that he will hold up a spending bill in the Senate and push toward a government shutdown unless $6 billion in aid to Ukraine is removed from the legislation.
Paul took to Twitter noting that he will only allow a vote on the spending stopgap before the Sept. 30 deadline for funding government if Senate leaders get rid of the massive amount of money earmarked for the war.
To avoid a government shutdown, I will consent to an expedited vote on a clean CR without Ukraine aid on it. If leadership insists on funding another country's government at the expense of our own government, all blame rests with their intransigence.
— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) September 28, 2023
Last week, Paul slammed the Ukrainian leadership as "corrupt" and blasting the visiting President Zelensky as "begging for more money."
In the Senate, Paul asked "When will the aid requests end? When will the war end? Can someone explain what victory looks like?"