WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said after a visit to Kyiv that he expects the Senate to pass a $40 billion aid package for Ukraine with broad bipartisan backing on Wednesday, and countered what he called the “isolationist voices” in his own party.
McConnell, R-Ky., speaking to reporters on a call from Sweden, made the pledge after leading a group of Republican senators on Saturday to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who called for swift passage of the aid.
“What I assured him — as this is an all-Republican delegation — is that support for Ukraine and this war against the Russians is bipartisan,” McConnell said Sunday, including from “an overwhelming majority of Republicans.”
