Rep. Mike Turner says aid to Ukraine is critical: “We have to support them now or they will lose”

Washington — Home Intelligence Committee chair Mike Turner urged on Sunday that Congress should approve further support for Ukraine. However he appeared hopeful that the Home will transfer “shortly,” regardless of opposition from inside his personal social gathering. 

“That is important. We now have to help them now or they may lose,” Turner, an Ohio Republican, mentioned on “Face the Nation” on Sunday. 

The way forward for U.S. help for Ukraine was thrown into query in latest weeks, after the Senate accredited a supplemental funding package deal that would offer support to Ukraine and different U.S. allies. However Speaker Mike Johnson has up to now refused to convey up the laws for a vote within the decrease chamber, urging that the Home will discover its personal path ahead. 

Although help for extra support to Ukraine stays robust amongst Democrats and a few Home Republicans, quite a lot of Home conservatives are staunchly opposed. The opposition has put stress on Johnson, who should maneuver a razor-thin and sometimes divided majority within the chamber. However Turner steered that Johnson “now has the leeway and the pliability” to convey up the overseas support invoice for a vote. 

Citing a latest suggestion from Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries that Home Democrats would save Johnson from an ouster vote ought to he convey the help invoice, Turner mentioned he now expects the laws to maneuver ahead shortly within the Home.

“I feel the Speaker sees that emergency, Hakeem Jeffries sees that emergency and I feel we’re gonna see payments hit the ground,” Turner mentioned.

The highest congressional leaders met final week on the White Home, the place Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell, President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Jeffries mentioned they made clear to Johnson how “important” the help is to assist Ukraine in its conflict with Russia.

“We might, in all probability, lose the conflict” if Ukraine does not get extra ammunition and provides quickly, Schumer mentioned after the assembly. “NATO could be fractured at greatest. Allies would flip away from the US.”