Republican Senators John Kennedy of Louisiana and Rand Paul of Kentucky have put holds on the legislation despite senators of both parties supporting it.
Paul wants special oversight of the money to prevent fraud. He is proposing an amendment to appoint a special inspector general to oversee the spending.
‘My sympathies are with Ukraine; I wish them luck, I want them to defeat the Russians, I want them to push the Russians out of their country. But we also have to be concerned with our country and with double-digit inflation here, this will make it worse,’ Paul told The Mark Reardon Show. ‘We can’t just shovel piles of money out the door and have nobody oversee it.’
GOP Senator John Thune of South Dakota told reporters on Capitol Hill: ‘I’m not allowing a speedy passage of the bill without having something fiscally responsible in the bill.’
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