Speaking with MSNBC on Monday morning, after the Senate released its bipartisan national security bill that includes funding for Ukraine, border security, and Israel, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the bill needs to pass or “we could be fighting in eastern Europe, in a NATO ally in a few years.”
Schumer said negotiations on the bill “took a long time” and lawmakers “fell off the tracks a whole bunch of times.”
“This bill is crucial, and history will look back on it and say, ‘did America fail itself?'”
Schumer said this bill is “crucial” because “if we don’t aid Ukraine, Putin will walk all over Ukraine, we will lose the war, and we could be fighting in eastern Europe in a NATO ally in a few years, Americans won’t like that.”
“If we don’t help Israel defend itself against Hamas, that perpetual war will go on and on and on. If we don’t help humanitarian aid to the starving Palestinians in Gaza, hundreds of thousands could starve.”
“And the border, everyone has said it’s chaos,” he added.
Schumer said that “too many Republicans, including Speaker Johnson, are just scared to death of Donald Trump. Donald Trump has said he wants chaos. Donald Trump has said, ‘Well wait until I become president,’ that’ll take at least a year. Ukraine could be gone. The border will get much worse. War in the Middle East will get worse.”
Schumer questioned whether senators would “drown out the political noise from Trump and his minions and do the right thing for America.”
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