'Unbelievable' if Johnson refuses to bring bipartisan foreign aid bill to House floor: Manchin

19 February 2024

US Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) — who announced last week he would not run for president this year, as many suspected — on Monday, February 19 emphasized the importance of passing the foreign aid bill that includes funding for Ukraine against Russia.

"You've said before that you believe [Russian President Vladimir] Putin recognizes the strength of US allies better than Donald Trump actually does," CNN host Kaitlan Collins said to the West Virginia lawmaker, asking, "I wonder what you think it says about the strength of the US as an ally, if House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) refuses to bring that that the foreign aid bill that has funding for Ukraine for a vote on the House floor?"

Manchin replied, "Kaitlan, we're still very hopeful. We have an awful lot of good people, Democrats and Republicans over on the House. They just have to have the courage to do the right thing. They know that basically our NATO allies are very concerned, and the reason we are the superpower of the world as we have allies who have the same values that we have. The love of freedom and democracy. And they're willing to fight with us, which makes us a superpower because of the ability for us to have other people with our values, I think for the same things we believe in. And it's just unbelievable if he would not let that come to the floor for a vote."

The centrist lawmaker emphasized, "I said this before if that's if I have to do things that make no sense at all that I can't explain to all the good West Virginians that I represent because it might hurt me politically, individually, then I shouldn't be representing him. I don't want to be in any form of a representative form of government if I can't do what the facts have led me to believe to go home and explain the right thing to do. And people are misled right now, they just don't know. They're not getting in facts of how horrible this is, and where we stand, and why we have to stand strong. It is imperative that [Ukrainian] President [Volodymyr] Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian people get all the help and resources they need defeat the aggression of this Russia, and Putin's commitment to basically putting mother Russia to back at the expense of all freedom loving people in countries around the world."

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