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Ron Johnson: “I initially supported the first tranche of spending [for…”

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It's pretty de minimis in terms of our federal budget and federal spending. Do you apply that same logic to the funding for Ukraine? Ukraine's complete separate situation? I initially supported the first tranche of spending [for Ukraine] because I want to send a pretty big signal to Putin. that don't continue this. We're going to be unified and we're going to do everything we can to resist your unwarranted and horrific invasion. But now we're two years into this. (05:05–05:13)

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Asserts initial support for Ukraine funding to deter Russian aggression.

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