Members of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus and their allies are drawing lines in the sand ahead of what’s expected to be an intense inter-GOP battle over additional aid for Ukraine.
The House of Representatives is expected to take up the issue of Ukraine and supplemental foreign aid the week after next, three sources told Fox News Digital.
Freedom Caucus Chairman Bob Good, R-Va., called for any funding to Ukraine to be balanced out by spending cuts elsewhere and for it to be paired with U.S. border policy changes.
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House GOP lawmakers like Freedom Caucus Chair Bob Good, R-Va., left, and Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., right, are staking out their positions on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s request for more aid. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images | Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto via Getty Images | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
“We cannot continue to borrow and spend money we don’t have for wars overseas while failing to protect Americans from the Biden border invasion here at home,” Good told Fox News Digital earlier this week. “At a bare minimum, any package for military aid to Ukraine should be fully offset and must include H.R. 2 with performance metrics to secure our own border.”
The position has since been echoed by other members of the House GOP’s right flank. Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., told Fox News Digital on Friday, “Any lethal military assistance to Ukraine that fails to meet these critical requirements is a total nonstarter.”
“House Republicans were tasked with getting our country back on track — starting with cutting spending and securing the southern border,” Clyde explained. “Abandoning these priorities while advancing a pricey package to defend Ukraine’s borders would represent an utter betrayal of the American people.”
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