Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden might have been in lockstep on aiding Ukraine, but some things the Senate minority leader had to shoulder alone.
Like battling his own party for the better part of the year.
“I don’t want to take a bit away from Chuck. He didn’t have any Ukraine problems, I had all of them. But, we agreed on the overall goal,” McConnell said in an interview on Tuesday. “It was not possible for him to help me with my members. Nor was it possible for the president to help me with my members. It was a Republican family argument.”
That argument has been settled, for now, as a majority of GOP senators took McConnell’s side in the long-running fight over $95 billion in foreign aid on Tuesday. McConnell punctuated the win over his party’s non-interventionist wing by flipping the votes of more than a half-dozen past opponents, tweaking Tucker Carlson for his vocal anti-Ukraine commentary and taking a victory lap in an extended press conference.
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