What Trump-Vance ticket means for Mitch McConnell's Ukraine aid crusade
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Trump's choice of Sen. Vance as his running mate could make Mitch McConnell's goal of shoring up Ukraine support in the Republican Party even harder.
Vance has further questioned the continued aid to Ukraine over a lack of oversight, even introducing legislation to better monitor it. "The United States has sent tens of billions worth of military aid to Ukraine with shockingly little accountability for where those resources have gone," he said in a statement at the time. Julia Johnson is a politics writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business, leading coverage of the U.S. Senate. She was previously a politics reporter at the Washington Examiner.
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"For example, we know that over half the weapons subject to enhanced end-use monitoring we’ve sent have not been tracked according to DOD standards. This is totally unacceptable. My legislation would require the Biden administration to maintain much higher standards of tracking the weapons we send overseas. If they can’t maintain those standards, they lose their authority to send weapons in the first place," he added.