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. And this is simply unacceptable. Before any new money is dispensed to Ukraine, we need a strategic exit plan from the Biden administration with quantifiable mechanism metrics. (01:04–01:13)
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