@cspanofficial: President Biden sharply criticized former President Trump on Tuesday for saying he would “encourage” Russia to do “whatever the hell they want” with NATO allies who underspend on national defense. “Can you imagine?” President Biden said. “A former president of the United States saying that? The whole world heard it. And the worst thing is he means it. No other president in our history has ever bowed down to a Russian dictator. Let me say this as clearly as I can: I never will. For God’s sake, it’s dumb, it’s shameful, it’s dangerous, it’s un-American.” Article 5 of the NATO charter requires member countries to aid one another in the event of an outside attack. It has only been invoked once in the alliance’s nearly 75-year history: after the U.S. was attacked on 9/11. President Biden made the remarks while urging House Republicans to allow a vote on a Senate-passed bill that provides billions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine and Israel. The Senate passed the bill on Tuesday morning in a bipartisan 70–29 vote, but Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has dismissed the legislation for not including border security provisions. All but four Senate Republicans blocked a previous version of the legislation that included the bipartisan border security bill after Speaker Johnson called it “dead on arrival” in the House and Mr. Trump lobbied lawmakers to reject it. #potus #joebiden #biden #donaldtrump #trump #nato #russia #vladimirputin #ukrainewar #cspan

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Tuesday 13 February 2024 21:12:11 GMT