周四，参议院投票通过了额外400亿美元的新援助，此前美国总统乔·拜登(Joe Biden)上个月呼吁国会提供额外资金，以帮助长期对抗俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京的入侵。
多数党领袖查克·舒默在以86票对11票的投票前发表的演讲中指出了该计划的重要性。
他说:“通过这个援助方案，参议院现在可以对乌克兰人民说，帮助正在路上:真正的帮助，重要的帮助，可以确保乌克兰人民取得胜利的帮助。”
随着众议院在本月早些时候通过了一揽子援助计划，它现在将摆在拜登的办公桌旁边。
该援助计划得到了两党的广泛支持，其中也有一些共和党人反对。在共和党参议员兰德·保罗拒绝加快进程后，它已经被搁置了几天。
在周四投票前的发言中，共和党领袖米奇·麦康奈尔承诺“两党大获全胜”，似乎对保罗和其他赤字鹰派人士对乌克兰法案成本的担忧嗤之以鼻。
“任何关心支持乌克兰胜利的成本的人都应该考虑乌克兰失败的更大成本，”麦康奈尔说，他鼓励所有成员加入“两党绝大多数”投票，以推进援助计划。
但是舒默走得更远，他呼吁共和党人投票反对援助计划。
舒默说:“似乎越来越多的共和党人对普京的剧本持同样的态度，我们看到前总统特朗普也使用了这种态度。”。
“MAGA对共和党的影响越来越大，越来越占主导地位。我们美国人——我们所有的民主党人和共和党人——都不能把头埋在沙子里，而弗拉基米尔·普京继续对乌克兰人民保持邪恶的敌意，同时向平民医院开火，瞄准并杀害儿童和无辜的人，”他说。
舒默说:“但是，当相当多的共和党人反对这个方案时，这正是我们向海外敌人发出的信号。”。
Senate passes $40 billion in new aid to Ukraine, bill heads to Biden
The Senate voted on Thursday to pass an additional $40 billion in new aid for Ukraine, after President Joe Biden called on Congress last month to deliver the additional funding, to help counter Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion over the long term.
In his floor remarks before the 86 -11 vote, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer noted the significance of the package.
"By passing this aid package the Senate can now say to the Ukrainian people help is on the way: real help, significant help, help that could ensure the Ukrainian people are victorious," he said.
With the House having passed the aid package earlier this month, it will now head next to Biden's desk.
The aid package got broad bipartisan support with some Republican holdouts. It had been stalled for several days after Republican Sen. Rand Paul's refusal to expedite to process.
In floor remarks before Thursday's vote, Republican Leader Mitch McConnell promised a "big bipartisan landslide" and seemed to thumb his nose at concerns from Paul and other deficit hawks about the cost of the Ukraine bill.
"Anyone concerned about the cost of supporting a Ukrainian victory should consider the much larger cost should Ukraine lose," McConnell said as he encouraged all members to join the "big bipartisan supermajority" voting to advance the aid package.
But Schumer went further, calling out the group of Republicans who he expects will vote against the aid package.
"It appears more and more MAGA republicans are on the same soft on Putin playbook that we saw used by former President Trump," Schumer said.
"The MAGA influence on the Republican party is becoming all too large and all too dominant. We Americans all of us Democrats and Republicans cannot afford to stick our heads in the sand while Vladimir Putin continues his vicious belligerence against the Ukrainian people while he fires at civilian hospitals and targets and kills children and innocent people," he said.
"But when Republicans -- in significant number -- oppose this package that is precisely the signal, we are sending to enemies abroad," Schumer said.
