About damn time.

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McConnell took to the floor to hail the prosperity the United States has enjoyed because it’s a global leader but told colleagues that that leadership comes with responsibilities to allies who help maintain peace and order throughout much of the world.

“So much of the hesitation and shortsightedness that has delayed this moment is premised on sheer fiction,” he said, warning that failure to support Ukraine would only encourage “unchecked terrorist violence” against American troops in the Middle East and Israel.

McConnell hailed the vote as a sign that his side is winning the debate with isolationists in the party about the importance of supporting European and Asian allies and deterring Russia, China and Iran.

Vance on the Senate floor ticked through the arguments he made in a recent New York Times op-ed that the military aid for Ukraine won’t turn the tide of the war and that the United States doesn’t have the industrial capability to supply it with the weapons it needs to win.

Biden submitted his foreign aid request to Congress in October, and the Senate passed its version of the $95 billion package on Feb. 13 after an effort to add to it a bipartisan border security deal negotiated with the White House failed.

Trump played a key role in knocking off the border security component, telling allies that he wanted to deny Biden a victory on a major issue in the 2024 election.

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