| BFR said: Looks like either John T. or John B.
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It's hard to say because Senate combined the bills together while House voted on them separately, but John Thune voted in favour of the foreign aid package while John Barrasso voted against it, but did Thune vote in favour of it because of Ukraine or because of Israel/Taiwan is the question. Mitch needs to start educating his colleagues about the benefits of Ukraine aid on a selfish perspective because it's the only thing that will get through to these guys, if Mitch tells them the financial benefits and benefits to America itself.
“The security assistance money appropriated ‘for Ukraine’ isn’t just buying weapons for Ukraine,” McConnell said in a Sept. 13 floor speech. “It’s also replenishing and modernizing America’s arsenal. And the vast majority of it is going to American defense manufacturers. “That’s tens of billions of dollars directly supporting tens of thousands of jobs in at least 38 states so far,” he said. “Support for Ukraine is driving historic investments in the communities we represent.”
This is the unfortunate angle that we're going to need to take with some of these guys, I say unfortunate because it just feels wrong to talk about how America benefits from the war, in terms of jobs and investment, or how when Ukraine is rebuilt, America will have a bunch of contracts thrown their way, when it shouldn't matter about any of that, it should simply be "because it's the right thing to do" but all some of these guys care about is how it makes them wealthier and this is probably the angle that will work on them.
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