Senator JD Vance warns that the Senate’s $95 billion foreign aid package could jeopardize a future Donald Trump presidency.
If passed, the massive bill would provide Ukraine with funding until 2025, effectively handcuffing the next president nine months into his term.
And if Trump wins the presidency and then tries to cut funding to Ukraine, Vance says he could be impeached.
The hotly debated deal would provide more than $15 billion for Ukraine’s military and security funding, which would not expire until September 30, 2025.
Vance, R-Ohio, who strongly opposes the bill, made a last-ditch effort to get Republicans to vote “no” in a memo Monday to all Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Trump has openly spoken about ending the conflict within 24 hours if he comes to power. So if he ends funding to Ukraine sooner, it would expose him to possible impeachment, Vance argues.
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., wrote on X: “JD is right. This bill is an impeachment trap!”
Ohio Senator JD Vance warned his Republican colleagues that a foreign aid deal contains a line that could jeopardize a future Donald Trump presidency
The foreign aid deal would total $95 billion, the vast majority of which would go to Ukraine
“The supplement represents a foreign policy attempt by the blob/deep state to prevent President Trump from pursuing his desired policies, and if he does, to provide grounds to impeach him and end his administration to undermine,” Vance wrote in the letter obtained by DailyMail.com.
If the bill passes, guaranteeing funding for Ukraine through 2025, and Trump tries to cut off funding before that date, “partisan Democrats would jump at the opportunity to impeach him again,” Vance said.
The $95 billion bill cleared a major procedural hurdle in the Senate on Sunday and is expected to pass later this week.
The country’s fate is uncertain in the House of Representatives as Republicans are divided over whether to send more money to Ukraine.
Trump was impeached in 2019 by House Democrats under then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi for threatening to withhold security funds from Kiev appropriated under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative.
“These are the exact same accounts that President Trump was accused of pausing in December 2019,” Vance wrote.
“Every Republican in the House of Representatives voted against this impeachment resolution,” he continued.
Democrats alleged at the time that the former president wanted to use the appropriated security funding as a bargaining chip for dirt on the Biden family’s business dealings in Ukraine.
The impeachment failed in the Senate, but Vance outlines that a similar case could be brought against Trump in the future.
Former President Donald Trump has claimed that he could end the war in Ukraine within a day and that he would like to quickly negotiate a deal with both sides to stop the killings.
Tens of thousands of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in the ongoing conflict
On Sunday, the Senate broke out a filibuster over the expensive package. By a vote of 67-27, the Senate passed a motion on the package, which would put it to a formal vote later this week.
Funding aid to Ukraine has been a top priority for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. “It is no exaggeration to say that the eyes of the world are on the United States Senate,” he said in the Senate on Sunday.
However, many conservative members of the Republican caucus have opposed sending additional funding to the war in Eastern Europe.
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, spoke for four hours on the Senate floor Sunday in an effort to filibuster the package, calling the deal a “sellout.”
“We cannot send billions of dollars to Ukraine while America’s own borders are bleeding,” he said.
Lee wanted to tie foreign aid financing to border security policy.
A recent deal on foreign aid and border security negotiated by McConnell and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer failed after months of negotiations.
In total, the package includes $61 billion for Ukraine, $14 billion for Israel in its war against Hamas and $4.83 billion to support partners in the Indo-Pacific, including Taiwan, and deter aggression from China.
It would also provide $9.15 billion in humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza and the West Bank, Ukraine and other conflict zones around the world.
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, has now indicated that the deal will be examined in the House of Representatives.
“Each element of the supplement must be assessed on its own merits and may need to be considered separately,” a Johnson spokesperson said. Politics.