McConnell pushes back on House GOP plan for Israel, Ukraine aid

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell sent a none-too-subtle message to House Republicans Tuesday while panning the lower chamber’s push to decouple support for Israel and Ukraine. While refraining from directly calling out the GOP ploy, McConnell (R-Ky.) said in remarks from the Senate floor that the US would be naïve to ignore how the crises are connected. “At the risk of repeating myself, the threats facing America and our allies are serious and they’re intertwined,” he said. “If we ignore that fact, we do so at our own peril.” “The Biden administration’s defense budget requests have systematically ignored these growing...