The Schumer/McConnell Team Saved Ukraine Aid.
“That argument has been settled, for now, as a majority of GOP senators took McConnell’s side in the long-running fight over $95 billion in foreign aid on Tuesday. McConnell punctuated the win over his party’s non-interventionist wing by flipping the votes of more than a half-dozen past opponents, tweaking Tucker Carlson for his vocal anti-Ukraine commentary and taking a victory lap in an extended press conference.
Beyond the intraparty GOP battle, though, Congress’ passage of $60 billion in aid for Ukraine traces back to something simple but rare in modern politics: an ironclad pact of trust between leaders of opposite political parties. It’s all the more surprising given the years of animus between Schumer, the majority leader and relentless political tactician, and McConnell, the outgoing minority leader celebrating what may be his foreign policy coda as the top Senate Republican.”
It appeared that isolationism was the theme of American Foreign policy under Trump and he tried to manipulate his party into permanently adopting that mantra long after leaving office. The GOP was going along with the ‘turtleing’ but did not count on the power and sway of the Washington Republican establishment flexing their muscle and adhering to a strong international American presence. The bill now goes to the President’s desk much to Russia’s chagrin, and the Washington isolationists.
