However, I am not happy with the level of visibility that we have given to this funding. The United States government must be in charge of our foreign policy. The United States government must be in charge of our defense policies, and we should not be handing these over to the Ukrainian government. We are funding Ukrainians. We're paying their salaries for their troops and giving them stipends when we are potentially looking forward to shutting down our government due to democratic intransigence, which means we will not be funding our own troops. (00:42–00:51)
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Asserts that U.S. defense policies should not be controlled by Ukraine.
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