Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) unleashed criticism against Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), calling him a “prick” and blaming him for holding up a bill that would provide military aid to Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel.
“We’re only here because of just one prick,” Fetterman said in an interview with CNN’s Manu Raju on Monday. “And he decides that the rest of all of our schedules and our lives and holding up this bill getting to the House for all of this aid. It’s incredibly frustrating, and there’s no work being done. It’s just bad performance art.”
Though the Senate voted 67-27 to advance the $95 billion supplemental foreign aid bill on Sunday, breaking the filibuster, several Republicans remain vocally opposed to the measure. In Paul’s case, he relied on old establishment chamber rules to slow down the process of passing the legislation.
The Senate worked through the weekend, with Paul telling CNN on Thursday that senators “should stay here as long as it takes.”
“If it takes a week or a month, I’ll force them to stay here to discuss why they think the border of Ukraine is more important than the U.S. border,” Paul said.
The bill is expected to pass the Senate this week, and Paul did not waste any time blasting Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for his continuous support of Ukraine during its war with Russia.
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“I can say right now, he doesn’t represent me, or conservatives in Kentucky, or conservatives across the United States. He’s doing the bidding of Schumer and Biden,” Paul told Raju.
Senate Republicans have been disparaging McConnell’s leadership since the upper chamber rolled out a border security bill that would have included Ukraine funding. The bill was essentially dead on arrival and was axed by GOP senators and a handful of Democratic senators last week.
