"Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) told POLITICO that the security assistance was released on Wednesday night. The Illinois Democrat offered an amendment during Thursday’s Senate markup of annual defense spending legislation that would have held back money in the Pentagon‘s budget in order to prevent the Trump administration from once again withholding military aid for Ukraine during the next fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1. "
I heard about this from Ed Henry (of all people) who framed it as "Dick Durbin threatened to block all House military funding legislation unless Ukraine aid was released... and sonofabitch, it was released"
"Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) told POLITICO that the security assistance was released on Wednesday night. The Illinois Democrat offered an amendment during Thursday’s Senate markup of annual defense spending legislation that would have held back money in the Pentagon‘s budget in order to prevent the Trump administration from once again withholding military aid for Ukraine during the next fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1. "
I heard about this from Ed Henry (of all people) who framed it as "Dick Durbin threatened to block all House military funding legislation unless Ukraine aid was released... and sonofabitch, it was released"