Polls find that public support for Ukraine aid has fallen from 60% last May to 48% now, as a fair share of Americans believe that the U.S. has given too much support to the warring nation. Biden challenged by softening public support for arming Ukraine:
American politician, 55th Speaker of the United States House of RepresentativesFILE -- President Joe Biden, left foreground, is escorted by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, background, as he visits the Wall of Remembrance, a memorial to the nation's fallen soldiers, in Kyiv, Ukraine's embattled capital, on Monday, Feb. 20, 2023.
Overall, public support for Ukraine aid has fallen from 60% last May to 48% now, according to surveys by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The share of Americans who think the United States has given too much to Ukraine has grown from 7% a year ago to 26% last month, according to the Pew Research Center.
Aides said Biden’s speeches in Kyiv and Warsaw were intended for an American audience as well as international ones. But the president has shrugged off concerns about ebbing public support for the Ukraine supply effort, suggesting it is relegated mainly to what he calls MAGA Republicans, after former President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again slogan.
But McCarthy, who during last fall’s campaign said there would be no “blank check” for Ukraine in a Republican House, is under pressure from a small but vocal part of his caucus critical of the U.S.’ involvement in the war and encouraged by Fox News’ Tucker Carlson.
By contrast, the announced and unannounced Republican presidential candidates who do support aid to Ukraine, like former Vice President Mike Pence and Nikki Haley, the former ambassador to the United Nations, trail far behind those two front-runners. Philip D. Zelikow, a University of Virginia scholar and former State Department counselor, said military aid was more popular than economic aid because much of it is actually spent on arms produced by U.S. defense firms. But he said that economic aid was critical to rebuilding Ukraine, and he argued that seizing $300 billion in Russian assets in the West for reconstruction would ease the burden on the American taxpayer.
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