Jordan: Why Should We Send American Tax Dollars to Ukraine When We Don’t Even Know What the Goal Is?

JORDAN: "Somebody has to bring our team together or we will not get done what the American people know need to be done and what is good for our nation. Somebody needs to do it, I think I’m equipped to do it and take the message to the American people.

RAJU: “What about Ukraine? Are you — are you willing to move forward with an aid package for Ukraine if you’re speaker?”

JORDAN: “I’m — I’m against that. What I understand is, at some point we’re gonna have to deal with this appropriations process in the right way, and we’ll try to do that in the next, what are we down to, 41 days. The most pressing issue on Americans’ minds is not Ukraine. It is the border situation and it is crime on the streets.”

JORDAN: Why should we be sending American tax dollars to Ukraine when we don’t even know what the goal is? No one can tell me what the objective is. Is it — is it some kind of negotiated peace? Is it driving them out of the eastern Ukraine? Is it driving them out of Crimea, which they’ve had for 10 years now, but they took during the Obama Administration? What is the objective? And so until you can tell me the goal, I don’t think we should continue to send money there, particularly when we have the problems we have on our border. So that’s fundamental. I just think that’s front and center. And then second, how is the money that’s already been sent, how has it — how has it been spent?”
DOOCY: “Right.”
JORDAN: “What kind of waste is going? Those are two fundamental questions that I think the American taxpayers want to know the answers to before they send any more of their hard earned money there, particularly you’re sending money there to protect Ukraine’s border —“
DOOCY: “Right.”
JORDAN: “— when we got the situation we have on our border. So —“
DOOCY: “Sure.”
JORDAN: “— those are the fundamental questions that we should get answered before we even think about sending more money.”