NEW: Mobile billboard circling Reagan National Airport today and tomorrow as Congress arrives in D.C.
“We’re Republicans. We support Ukraine. Don’t let Putin win.”
Sen. Romney: "There are no guarantees that Ukraine will defeat Russia, but that does not mean that we should stand back and let Putin have his way with Europe...Helping a free people defend their freedom is simply the right thing to do."
Gen. Mark Milley: “If Ukraine loses...I think you would be certainly increasing, if not doubling, your defense budget in the years ahead. And you will increase the probability of a great power war...I think it’ll be a very dangerous situation if Putin is allowed to win.”
Nikki Haley on supporting Ukraine: "We all know that half a million people have died because of Putin. And here is a freedom-loving, pro-American country that is fighting for its survival and its democracy...I think we should give them the equipment and ammunition to win."
Sen. Mitch McConnell criticizes the “loud voices on both sides of the aisle” who oppose Ukraine aid:
“The path toward greater security for all of us is simple: Help Ukraine win the war.”
Nikki Haley: "Trump, Ron, all of them have said let's leave Ukraine. Let me tell you why Ukraine is important...Russia said once they take Ukraine, Poland, and the Baltics are next. Those are NATO countries, and that puts America at war. This is about preventing war."
Nikki Haley: “Ukraine is a peaceful pro-American country. The dictator of Russia is evil. He’s a war criminal who is guilty of genocide...Mark my words: Those who would abandon Ukraine today are at risk of abandoning Israel tomorrow.”
“Republicans need to grow up, give Ukraine what they need to end this war and stop playing politics. It’s our duty as Americans to be there for countries when they need us” - James Shields, Ohio Republican
Former Trump National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster: "Russia is not going to stop until Russia is stopped. The Ukrainians are the ones who are stopping Russia..."
Nikki Haley on why we must provide Ukraine with the weapons they need to win:
“Russia said once they take Ukraine, Poland and the Baltics are next. Those are NATO countries. That puts America at war. This is about preventing war.”
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@Liz_Cheney
: “If you do not support aid to Ukraine...you are, in fact, helping America’s adversaries. You are demonstrating weakness at precisely the moment that we need to be showing strength. It is dangerous and ill-informed.”
Sen. Mitt Romney: “We spend about $850 billion a year on defense. We're using about 5% of that to help Ukraine...defend freedom, and to decimate the Russian military...[That] strikes me as an extraordinarily wise investment.”
Chris Christie: "The last time we turned our back on a shooting war in Europe, it cost us half a million American lives."
Right now, it costs us no American lives—just 5% of our annual defense budget.
We can't turn our backs on Ukraine.
Sen. Mitt Romney: “The great majority in the House and in the Senate believe that...supporting Ukraine is in America's interest...Allow the vote to occur, and the funds will be able to provide Ukraine the ability to buy weapons from the U.S. to defend themselves.”
America's Enemies Are Working Together.
When we arm Ukraine, we weaken Russia AND its allies. We can't allow America's enemies to win.
NEW AD: Airing tomorrow in Washington, DC, during the Republican Debate.
Speaker Johnson: "I'm doing here what I believe to be the right thing. I think providing lethal aid to Ukraine right now is critically important...We can't play politics with this. We have to do the right thing."
Sen. Mitt Romney: “If we’re no longer the leader of the free world, if we’re no longer the arsenal of democracy, then the world is going to look for different leaders. And I know at least one player that’s happy to step into that role, and that’s China.”
We give Ukraine old weapons. We buy new weapons to replace them. Ukraine reclaims its territory, the Russian army gets destroyed, and American jobs get created. What's not to like?
Rep. McCaul: “I want to give them everything they need to at least push the Russians back so we don’t have to send our men and women over there. It’s called deterrence. If we fail on that and surrender in Ukraine...it makes us weaker because we’re not projecting strength.”
Chris Christie on the benefits of providing aid to Ukraine:
“When you spend 5% of your annual Pentagon budget supporting Ukraine, and they’ve degraded 50% of the Russian military hardware, that’s a pretty good investment.”
Rep. Dan Crenshaw on Republicans who oppose aid to Ukraine: “I guess their reasoning is they want Russia to win so badly that they want to oust the speaker over it. It’s a strange position to take.”
“As a Republican, I have lost my patience with the Republican politicians preventing the United States from supporting Ukraine…It's time to stand up for freedom and democracy, or bear the consequences of our inaction.” - Andrew Richardson
Sen. McConnell: “The U.S. isn’t arming Ukraine out of a sense of charity. We’re backing a fellow democracy because it’s in our direct interest to do so.”
We are Republicans for Ukraine.
We are amplifying the voices of Republicans who believe that the United States should be a steadfast friend to democracies like Ukraine and a fearsome enemy to aggressive dictatorships like Russia.
McConnell: “The overwhelming majority of the resources approved by the Senate as security assistance for Ukraine has...gone directly to American manufacturers, supporting American jobs, expanding the American industrial base, and producing new weapons for America’s military.”
Brant is a Republican from Arizona who supports providing weapons to Ukraine because of the atrocities Putin is perpetrating upon Ukraniainan civilians:
“You’re either on the side of good, or you’re not. You can’t be neutral in a situation like this.”
John is a Republican from Virginia who believes we should provide more aid to Ukraine because it’s a clear case of good versus evil:
“I support sending more aid to Ukraine because I think this is the clearest example in my lifetime, in all of our lifetimes, of good versus evil.”
Sen. Thom Tillis: “I do not want to be a part of history that fails democracy. And that's a failure if we don't find a way to fund Ukraine and Israel.”
Rep. McCaul: “We’re going to address Israel. We’re going to address Ukraine. We’re going to address Taiwan.”
Good. Put the bills on the floor now. They need our help.
Sen. Grassley: “I don’t buy this notion that it is conservative or Republican position to abandon the American leadership that has kept the peace...I make no apologies for supporting Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan in the face of threats from the axis of anti-American dictatorship.”
Speaker Johnson: “80% of the spending for Ukraine is replenishment of American weapons and stocks. That's a really important thing for our own U.S. industrial base and defense base.”
NEW: We are launching a new ad pushing for Republican members of Congress to support aid to Ukraine.
The ad will air on the four major Sunday news shows in the D.C. market this Sunday, and it will also air nationally during the GOP primary debate on Fox Business.
Chris Christie on providing more weapons to Ukraine:
”I think Joe Biden has given them enough—just enough—not to lose, but not enough to win. And so part of what I think we need to do here is to give the Ukrainians the ability to prosecute the war in the way they see fit.”
Sen. McConnell on the need for more Ukraine aid:
“It's in the U.S.'s direct interest for authoritarians not to feel free to redraw maps by force...to help blunt aggressive behavior before it triggers wider conflict and directly threatens our closest allies and trading partners.”
Speaker Johnson: “We are going to stand for freedom and make sure that Vladimir Putin doesn't march through Europe...We have to project to Putin, Xi, and Iran, and North Korea, and anybody else that we will defend freedom.”
Stephan is a Republican from Florida who supports providing Ukraine with the weapons they need to win because if we don’t, it will empower our enemies:
“Don’t let our enemies win. Don’t give them what they want.”
Nikki Haley on why we must provide Ukraine with the weapons they need to win:
“Here is this pro-American, freedom-loving country that was invaded by a thug. Half a million people have died because of Putin...If Ukraine stopped fighting, they would lose their country.”
Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul on Volodymyr Zelensky and Ukrainians:
“This man has moral courage and moral clarity, and the will of the Ukrainian people is far stronger than the will of the Russians.”
Rep. Don Bacon: “It's in our national security interest that Ukraine remain independent...With approx. 10% of our defense budget...We've taken 300,000 Russian soldiers off the battlefield...We have done that with not a single American serviceman or woman in Ukraine.”
We are launching a six-figure billboard campaign to persuade Republican lawmakers returning to D.C. next week to pass aid to Ukraine:
"We're Republicans. We support Ukraine. Don't let Putin win."
America's Enemies Are Working Together.
When we arm Ukraine, we weaken Russia AND its allies. We can't allow America's enemies to win.
We must support Ukraine.
When America was attacked on 9/11, Ukraine sent troops to Afghanistan to support us.
When Ukraine was attacked, they didn't ask for American troops—just weapons to defend themselves.
They answered our call. We should answer theirs.
Nikki Haley on Ukraine: “Here you have this pro-American, freedom-loving country that was invaded by a thug...And what they did was they went to the frontlines to save their country...What we need to do is make sure they have the equipment and ammunition to win.”
Aidan is a Republican from Rhode Island who supports providing aid to Ukraine because they are fighting to protect the Western world:
“If we don’t respond to the crisis right now, we are turning our backs on everything we have striven for since 1945.”
Sen. McConnell: “Make no mistake: delay in providing Ukraine the weapons to defend itself has strained the prospects of defeating Russian aggression...I will not mince words when members of my own party take the responsibilities of American leadership lightly.”
Former Trump National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster on the trickle of American aid to Ukraine:
"I mean, like, 30 tanks? How about 300 tanks! I think it's silly the way these capabilities are being dribbled in."
We cannot show weakness in the face of aggression.
We must provide aid to Ukraine now.
Ad running in the districts of these Republicans:
Gallagher (WI), Buck (CO), McCaul (TX), Rogers (AL), Turner (OH), Bacon (NE), Womack (AR), Ellzey (TX), Fitzpatrick (PA), Crenshaw (TX)
Sen. Lindsey Graham: “To my Republican colleagues who believe that we should pull the plug on supporting Ukraine: If you think Putin’s going to stop at Ukraine, you’re not paying attention...I think it would be really ill-conceived to not support Ukraine.”
Chris Christie on supporting Ukraine and Israel:
“America cannot be on the sidelines...China and Russia and North Korea and Iran...are working with each other. And what they're trying to do is push America out of the leadership role in this world and take it for themselves.”
Rep. Mike Lawler: “If Ukraine falls, you will see other former Soviet satellite states fall with it...The reality is this: There will be a new world order if the U.S. fails to lead here...We have a responsibility to stand up for freedom, for democracy, and the free world.”
Chris Christie: "Iran is in the middle of this as well, and so is North Korea. And they're all working to support Russia right now...We must stand with all of those that are standing up for democracy and freedom in this world."
Ronald is a Republican from Ohio who is currently in Ukraine doing humanitarian aid and mission work:
“We must help them to continue to see their flag wave over this land. I mean, how can we not do this? We cannot just stand on the side and let these people die...That’s not us.”
Jake is a Republican from Missouri who supports providing aid to Ukraine because they are fighting to preserve their freedom:
“Ukraine has constantly shown itself to be a country that wants to be free...That wants to sit outside of the Russian sphere of influence.”
“So you want Russia to win more than you want border policy changes?”
Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a Republican from Texas calling out the MAGA Republicans who are saying they won't support President Biden's border policy because of Ukraine aid or because it will help Biden politically.
Sen. McConnell: “In addition to the fact that our friends in Ukraine are running out of ammo, our friends in Israel need help as well. I want to encourage the Speaker to allow a vote. Let the House speak on the supplemental that we sent over to them several weeks ago.”
Rep. Mike Turner: “I think all the world has seen this as a war of aggression by Russia...The murderous nature of what Russia is doing has to be responded to...I believe this is going to have overwhelming support in Congress, and we’ll put a bill on the president’s desk.”
Rep. Mike Lawler: “We must lead. As the leader of the free world, the United States has an obligation to support our allies. Between Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, the United States must get the aid and support necessary...We need to get aid to our allies.”
Allen is a Republican from Florida who supports providing more aid to Ukraine because he believes that stopping Putin will prevent future conflict:
“If we get Putin out of Ukraine, that would be a huge signal that this kind of thing just isn’t gonna happen.”
Rep. Michael McCaul: “I think Russian propaganda has made its way into the United States, unfortunately, and it’s infected a good chunk of my party’s base.”
Mark is a Republican from Texas who supports providing aid to Ukraine because if we allow Russia to win, they won't stop with Ukraine:
“Whatever we spend on defending Ukraine right now will be a pittance compared to what we will be spending if Russia wins.”
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@RepDonBacon
: “Unfortunately, a few of my colleagues would like to see the Russians win. I don't know why that is the case. I think it's a terrible thing. Ukraine wants to be free...We should help them on that path.”
Rep. Don Bacon: “For roughly 10% of the defense budget, we have helped Ukraine prevail...With our military aid, we’ve taken 300,000 Russian troops off the battlefield and have destroyed half their tanks.”
Stephan is a Republican from Florida who supports providing Ukraine with the weapons they need to win because if we don’t, it will empower our enemies:
“Don’t let our enemies win. Don’t give them what they want.”
Nick is a Republican from Iowa. He believes that we get a lot for a little by providing Ukraine with the weapons they need to win:
“In my lifetime, I don’t know that I’ve seen taxpayer dollars go to a better use than us supporting Ukraine.”
Nick is a Republican from Iowa. He believes that we get a lot for a little by providing Ukraine with the weapons they need to win:
“In my lifetime, I don’t know that I’ve seen taxpayer dollars go to a better use than us supporting Ukraine.”
Nick is a Republican from Iowa. He believes that we get a lot for a little by providing Ukraine with the weapons they need to win:
“In my lifetime, I don’t know that I’ve seen taxpayer dollars go to a better use than us supporting Ukraine.”
Former VP Pence: “Give them what they need to make the fight...The situation is dire. Vladimir Putin continues to brutalize the people of Ukraine...Now is the time for America to lead, and I’m encouraged to see the Congress moving in that direction.”
Sen. James Risch on how upholding our commitment to Ukraine deters Chinese aggression:
“If you think Xi isn't watching every single thing that goes on as far as our commitment to see this thing through, you're badly mistaken. He is watching this.”
Rep. Turner says "it's absolutely true" that Russian propaganda has "infected" the GOP:
"To the extent that this propaganda takes hold, it makes it more difficult for us to really see this as an authoritarian versus democracy battle, which is what it is."
Jim is a Republican from Texas who is tired of Republicans who oppose providing aid to Ukraine:
“The Republican Party of today is not what I joined...It's time to push the Russians out of Ukraine.”
Republicans have an opportunity to support border security AND help Ukraine win. They must vote yes.
Our new ad running this week on MSNBC nationally and on Fox News in DC.
“Ukraine is the victim here. They were invaded... We’re processing through the various options right now.” - Mike Johnson
Johnson knows what the right thing to do is.
So why won’t he do it?
Liz Cheney pushes for Mike Johnson to call the House to vote on the foreign aid bill:
“The best thing that we can do right now is to pass the aid bill that the Ukrainians need so urgently to help them continue what they're doing to defeat Putin's army in Ukraine.”
Jim is a Republican from Georgia who supports providing aid to Ukraine:
“They’re fighting to throw off occupation by Russia. They want to have Western-type ideals, and we need to promote that. We need more countries in the world like that.”
“Standing by our allies in Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan is a moral imperative. But it's also more than that. If we retreat further, there will be more war, not less.”
Pate is a Republican from Georgia who supports providing weapons to Ukraine because they are putting their lives on the line to stop a brutal dictator:
“Dictators don’t stop, they are stopped.”
Rep. Don Bacon: “I’m a Ronald Reagan Republican. I believe in peace through strength. Reagan would have stood up to Putin just like he did to the Soviets at the time.”
Mitt Romney: “It’s very much in America’s interest...to provide the weapons that Ukraine needs to defend itself. Anything other than that would be a huge dereliction of our responsibility, I believe, to the world of democracy, but also to our own national interest.”
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@mikepompeo
: “Rather than bolstering Putin, Xi, and Khamenei by abandoning Ukraine, the US and our allies should be accelerating the flow of weapons and ammunition to Kyiv to further decimate Russian military capabilities.”
Rep. Mike Lawler: “We have the supplemental package before us. I signed a discharge petition yesterday to bring that to a head because we need to support our allies.”
Peter is a Republican from Washington who supports providing Ukraine with the weapons they need to win:
“If our enemies are fighting our ally, who’s actually doing all the work, and all we need is just to send them military equipment, ammo, I mean, that’s a win-win situation.”
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@RepDonBacon
: “I think there are some arguments in regards to Ukraine and Russia that is Russian propaganda...Saying Russia is fighting for Christianity—that's propaganda...Saying that Ukraine represents the Nazis—that's more Russian propaganda.”
David is a Republican from Florida who supports providing Ukrainians with the weapons they need to win because it will prevent further aggression from Putin:
“Support for Ukraine makes it less likely that the Russians could move similarly against NATO countries.”
Tim is a Republican from Mississippi who is fed up with his fellow Republicans who don't support Ukraine:
“For years of locking horns with liberals on other issues, I now find myself locking horns with my own fellow conservatives, and they won’t budge.”
Tim is a Republican from California. He supports providing Ukraine with the weapons they need to win because they’re fighting to defend their freedom:
“They want to live in peace. Ukraine just wants to be independent and free…We have to help them.”
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, who just got back from Kyiv, says Ukraine has “weeks, not months” to resupply munitions. Speaker Johnson hasn’t assured him he’ll bring his aid bill to the floor, but he makes clear he’ll force it if necessary. “We will find a way to get this to the floor”
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@LeaderMcConnell
on why we should support Ukraine:
“We’re rebuilding our industrial base. The Ukrainians are destroying the army of one of our biggest rivals. I have a hard time finding anything wrong with that.”
Stephan is a Republican from Florida who supports providing Ukraine with the weapons they need to win because if we don't it will empower our enemies:
“Don’t let our enemies win. Don’t give them what they want.”
David is a Republican from California who supports sending Ukraine weapons because he believes Russia’s evil empire needs to be defeated:
“The strategy against Russia is real simple: We win, they lose.”