Republican senators joined the Democratic majority Thursday to shut down an effort to limit Ukraine funding in the annual Pentagon policy bill.
In its last vote of the week, the chamber rejected on a 71-13 vote an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would have required that $800 million in Ukraine funding in the bill be limited until U.S. allies chip in more funding for the country’s war effort.
Mr. Lee’s amendment would have required that just 2% of the funding for Ukraine aid that the NDAA might authorize actually be sent to Kyiv until other NATO countries meet the alliance’s longstanding target of devoting at least 2% of their gross domestic product to defense spending. But Sen. Jack Reed, Rhode Island Democrat and Senate Armed Services Committee chairman, said that Mr. Lee’s amendment was reckless, and would undermine the war effort in Ukraine.
Mr. Lee’s amendment was one of a slate of add-ons authored by the Utah Republican that seek to reel back the U.S. involvement in the Ukrainian war.
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