- Senator Majority Leader Chuck Schumer warned that without a fight from Ukraine, the US could have boots on the ground to fight Russia in Eastern Europe
- Members advocating military assistance to Ukraine should ‘serve no less than six months on active duty in support of a contingency operation’
- The US has provided more than $75 billion in military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine since Vladimir Putin’s invasion
- Congress is now locked in a contentious battle to provide an additional $60 billion or so
Florida Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna is asking her colleagues for support for a new bill that would force members of Congress into a war zone if they advocate military aid to Ukraine in its battle with Russia.
The legislation, first obtained by DailyMail.com, would “require members of Congress who advocate providing military assistance to Ukraine to join the armed forces and serve on active duty in support of a contingency operation.”
The US has offered more than $75 billion in military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine since Vladimir Putin’s invasion, and Congress is now locked in a contentious battle to provide another $60 billion.
The Florida Republican’s bill comes in response to an MSNBC interview that Senator Majority Leader Chuck Schumer gave in which he warned that without Ukraine putting up a fight, the US could soon have boots on the ground against Russia in Eastern Europe to fight.
“If we don’t help Ukraine, Putin will walk all over Ukraine, we will lose the war and in a few years we can fight in Eastern Europe in a NATO ally. The Americans won’t like that,” the New York Democrat said.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna is asking her colleagues for support for a new bill that would force members of Congress into a war zone if they advocate military aid to Ukraine in its battle with Russia
“If we don’t help Ukraine, Putin will walk all over Ukraine, we will lose the war and in a few years we can fight in Eastern Europe in a NATO ally. The Americans won’t like that,” Chuck Schumer said recently
The Senators Can Help Underpin Military Engagement and Readiness Act, or the SCHUMER Act, would require those advocating military assistance to be “placed on active duty for not less than six months in support of a contingency operation.”
Luna’s office has asked other members to sign the legislation by Feb. 12 if they want to be an original cosponsor.
“In honor of Chuck Schumer, I will introduce a bill that would require any politician who advocates sending American troops to Ukraine to fight with them on the front lines,” Luna wrote on Twitter after Schumer’s interview.
The bill comes as the Senate considers how to move forward with providing relief to embattled U.S. allies after bipartisan immigration went up in flames.
“In honor of Chuck Schumer, I will introduce a bill that would require any politician who advocates sending American troops to Ukraine to fight with them on the front lines,” Luna wrote on Twitter after Schumer’s interview.
The long-awaited deal, which combined aid to Ukraine, Israel, Gaza and Taiwan with immigration measures, was released on Sunday and rejected days later after Republicans in the House of Representatives insisted it would be dead on arrival.
Republicans quickly rejected Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s vote to advance the $118 border security bill from 49 to 50 after days of outrage from the GOP. They said the bill did not go far enough to secure the border.
Schumer, D-N.Y., said the vote “would show who is serious about securing the border — and who is not.”
Having failed to get 60 votes to advance, attention immediately turned to a new effort to move aid to Ukraine and Israel without border language — with scores of Republicans saying they would agree to the idea.
“If they do that and send it out, we’ll see what the speaker wants to do,” Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., told DailyMail.com about the candidate.
But any aid to Ukraine on the agenda would likely upset the right wing of the Republican Party in the House of Representatives as Luna did. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has already said she would consider filing a motion to vacate if that were to happen.