GOP Efforts to Stall Ukraine Funding a ‘Strategic Error’: Sen. Reed

WASHINGTON—Current efforts by congressional Republicans to slow or stop U.S. funding for Ukraine will negatively impact security throughout the world, according to the chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee. “What’s disappointing is that it seems that in the House particularly they are ready to fund Israel but not…Ukraine,” said Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) during a Nov. 14 defense summit hosted by Politico. He called this a “strategic error.” Some Republican lawmakers have sought to excise Ukraine funding from a supplemental funding request that President Joe Biden proposed last month. The bill would fund national security priorities in Israel, Ukraine, the Indo-Pacific, and the United States’ southern border....