The war in Iran has knocked Ukraine completely out of the headlines, but former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hasn’t forgotten about the hundreds of millions of dollars being funneled to the notoriously corrupt Eastern European country.
In a column published by the Washington Post, the Kentucky Republican who chairs the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee publicly complained about the Pentagon’s holdup of $400 million in military aid approved by Congress for the ongoing NATO proxy war against Russia.
“We’re already paying a price for inaction,”@SenMcConnell writes.
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“Republican majorities on both armed services committees authorized $400 million for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative for each of the next two years. Appropriators fully funded that authorization for fiscal 2026 with overwhelming support,” the geriatric senator wrote.
McConnell specifically singled out Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby, an appointee of President Donald J. Trump.
“Yet the Ukraine aid we passed months ago is now collecting dust at the Pentagon,” McConnell fumed. “When Senate appropriators have sought an explanation from the department’s policy shop, led by Undersecretary Elbridge Colby, they’ve been stonewalled.”
“The $900 billion National Defense Authorization Act approved by Congress for fiscal 2026 provided $400 million for Ukraine in 2026 and another $400 million in 2027 through the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative,” according to The Hill.
“This doesn’t seem to be a first for Colby. Last year, he was reportedly behind the decision to suspend arms shipments to Kyiv — a decision that one source said caught President Donald Trump ‘flat-footed,’” the octogenarian grifter continued.
“Colby also determined that security assistance to Ukraine and America’s NATO allies in the Baltics was ‘wasteful’ and removed these long-standing efforts from the fiscal 2026 budget request,” McConnell wrote.
The GOP geezer has had an ax to grind with Colby since day one, opposing his confirmation.
“Make no mistake: America will not be made great again by those who are content to manage our decline,” he wrote in a bitter statement justifying his “no” vote.
“In the first two years of the full-scale war, support for Ukraine drove billions of dollars in investments in the U.S. defense industrial base,” the 84-year-old lawmaker added, giving the game away that it’s all about the money funneled back into the Military Industrial Complex.
Frustrated that Ukraine and its pint-sized “dictator without elections” Volodymyr Zelenskyy have been relegated to playing second fiddle when it comes to wars, McConnell seized on the visit by King Charles, who was welcomed in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, where he whipped up U.S. support for Europe’s centuries-old feud with Russia.
Clearly, King Charles wants America to know our allies, who came to our aid after 9/11, still look to us for leadership. On the importance of NATO and handing Russia a defeat in Ukraine, his message is crystal clear.
— U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell (@SenMcConnell) April 29, 2026
“Clearly, King Charles wants America to know our allies, who came to our aid after 9/11, still look to us for leadership. On the importance of NATO and handing Russia a defeat in Ukraine, his message is crystal clear,” he wrote on X, a thinly veiled jab at Trump, who is questioning the relationship with the Europeans who have failed to rally to the nation’s support to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
McConnell’s tantrum confirms one bedrock principle when it comes to Congress: there’s always money for foreign wars but not for the American people.
