Greg Delucchi

Cirius Group

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

I disagree with this decision. First, this should have been a G20 decision and not a unilateral one. Secondly, Putin deserves to be treated like dictator tyrant, war crimes pariah that he is. He’s a disgusting repulsive leader that hates America and the free world.

[Olena Halushka @OlenaHalushka]

Worth reminding over and over again: if russia stops fighting, there will be no war; if Ukraine stops fighting, there will be no Ukraine.

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

The House Faces Its Churchill vs. Chamberlain Moment on Russia

Last week I stood in Kyiv among burned-out Russian tanks, where Ukrainian officials walked me through how the war is going. The news from the front lines is mixed. Ukrainian forces have fought Russia to a standstill on the ground, and Russia is paying a much higher price in troops and equipment than Ukraine is. Since Putin cannot win that fight, he has turned to terror instead, bombing grocery stores, shopping malls and gas stations to break Ukraine's economy and its people's will. Stopping that kind of attack depends on air defenses. For every four ballistic missiles Russia builds, we are producing only one Patriot interceptor to shoot them down. That gap will not close on its own. Cutting off the money that pays for those missiles is one of the few tools we have to help close it.

The Senate has already made its choice, overwhelmingly passing the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia Act last month with bipartisan support. This week, the House faces the same question. Ukraine is a democracy with free markets and the rule of law, invaded without provocation by a dictator who poisons his rivals, throws his enemies off rooftops, and is trying to erase an entire country's right to exist. Are we going to stand with good, or are we going to stand with evil? That should not be a hard question. It only gets hard for people who say they support Ukraine right up until a vote actually counts, and that vote is expected this week.

My party has always said we believe in peace through strength, the doctrine Reagan used to outlast the Soviet Union, and this bill is the chance to prove we still believe it. President Trump has wavered on this war before, but on this bill, he is finally on the right side, and this Congress should not waste that. Passing it gives him the leverage he needs to end a war he has said he wants to end. That leverage disappears if the House lets this bill die, and Putin will read it the same way he reads every act of American hesitation, as proof he can wait us out.

His ambitions do not stop at Ukraine's border. He is already threatening Moldova and the Baltic states, and a Russian victory here would embolden China, Iran and North Korea to test the same theory against their own neighbors. That is not a risk this Congress should be willing to take.

This bill is how Congress answers that risk. It sanctions the Russian officials and banks financing this war, along with the shadow fleet of tankers helping Russia evade oil sanctions, and it goes after the money directly funding it. It authorizes tariffs of up to 100 percent on the five largest importers of Russian crude oil, the five largest importers of Russian natural gas, and countries most responsible for helping Russia evade these sanctions, while allowing the president to waive them if he certifies to Congress that doing so serves the national interest. Putin's illegal war is failing, but he will not choose peace until the cost becomes too high for Russia and everyone helping to fund his brutality.

This bill carries Lindsey Graham's name because he earned it. He was one of Congress's clearest voices for Ukraine, and he spent more than a year building this sanctions package and securing the White House's support for it before he died without seeing it become law. The best tribute Congress can give him now is to finish what he started.

Some of my Democrat colleagues are hesitant because of this bill's tariff authority, and I understand why. Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution explicitly gives tariff power to Congress, not the president alone, and I have spent more than a year arguing that broad, unilateral tariffs are bad for American consumers and businesses. In February, the Supreme Court agreed that the specific emergency powers law the president had cited did not actually authorize the tariffs he imposed under it. Congress, not any one president, is supposed to make these calls.

This bill puts that authority back where it belongs. It is Congress itself writing tariff authority into law, with defined targets, reporting requirements and presidential waiver authority built in by Congress, not claimed by a president acting alone. Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat, spent months negotiating those terms with the White House and lawmakers in both parties before this bill passed the Senate. Choking off the money funding a war of conquest in Europe is exactly what that authority should be used for, and Congress deciding to do that is Congress doing its constitutional job.

Every day this bill waits is a day Putin spends buying more missiles with money we could be cutting off right now. The House will likely not be back in session until November, and there is no guarantee this exact window opens again after that. Don't let perfection be the enemy of the good, a point President Zelensky has made about this same bill. The House has the chance to take clear, bipartisan action against Putin this week, and it should take it.

This is a Churchill versus Chamberlain moment. By God, I am choosing Churchill, and the House had better choose Churchill too. History does not remember kindly those who choose Chamberlain.

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

Hitler said “give me the Sudetenland Land and we will have peace.” The Allies did and that only fed Hitler’s appetite.

Encouraging Ukraine to give land to Putin is foolish and very naive. 70% of Americans want us to do more to support Ukraine.

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

I spent 24 hours in Kyiv and the Russians targeted the city twice with drones. One was shot down overhead and the other hit a gas station killing innocent civilians who were putting gas in their cars. There’s a special place in hell for Putin.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

[Ben Hodges @general_ben]

@realDonaldTrump If Russia cancels its illegal invasion of Ukraine and withdraws to its own borders, Ukraine will immediately stop hitting Russian diesel refineries. Problem solved.

[Boris Johnson @BorisJohnson]

I don’t know what warped logic drove Putin to blow up a stationary Ukrainian locomotive on the Polish border this morning. What we can say for sure is that this is the kind of random and senseless attack Ukrainians are enduring every day - even on civilian railways. So far Putin has been responsible for the deaths of 1700 staff of Ukrzaliznytsia - Ukrainian Railways. They and their daily passengers are absolutely heroic.

When are we going to give them the air defences they need? Why won’t we unfreeze Putin’s cash and give it to Ukraine? There is more than €140 billion in a Belgian bank account - and about £10 billion in London. Britain could show a lead.

The Ukrainians are going to win - that much was clear from the last three days in their wonderful country. But we will get this dreadful war over much faster if we all get serious and give them what they need and deserve.

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

On the ground in Kyiv, the news from the front lines in Ukraine is mixed. Ukrainian forces have fought Russia to a standstill, and Russia is paying a much higher price in losses on the battlefield. Since Putin can't win that fight, he's turned to terrorism instead, bombing grocery stores, shopping malls and gas stations to break Ukraine's economy and terrorize its people. For every four ballistic missiles Russia is making, we're producing one Patriot. This is the new fight, and America needs to stand up and lead the free world.

[Preston Stewart @prestonstew_]

Since Witkoff has taken over negotiations, here's just a few who have managed to visit Kyiv.

Keir Starmer: Prime Minister, UK
Emmanuel Macron: President, France
Friedrich Merz: Chancellor, Germany
Alexander Stubb: President, Finland
Mette Frederikson: President, Denmark
Ulf Kristersson: Prime Minister, Sweden
Donald Tusk: Prime Minister, Poland
Kristen Michal: Prime Minister, Estonia
US Senators Shaheen, Tillis, Bennet, Kelly, Kaine, Graham, Blumenthal, Whitehouse, Coons, Gallego, Budd, Barrasso, Armstrong and Lankford.

But yes, too dangerous for Witkoff.

https://t.co/uosC8qM5SX

[Mike Pence @Mike_Pence]

Visiting Ukraine today, 4 1/2 years after the brutal and unprovoked invasion by Russia, I sense that the Ukrainians’ steely will and commitment to defend their freedom is even greater today then when the Russian tanks first rolled.

Ukraine is winning this War. With the right support of America and Our Allies, the brave Ukrainian people can achieve a victory for freedom for themselves and the Free World.🇺🇸🇺🇦

[Terry Virts @AstroTerry]

I spent a year of my life flying F-16s at Osan AB defending South Korea from the North.

POTUS is siding with the worst dictator on the planet.

MAGA- how can you support this?

[Dimko Zhluktenko 🇺🇦⚔️ @dim0kq]

McDonalds in Kyiv withstood more hits and shrapnel, the glass walls didn’t break this time.

Because after last missile attack, they installed armored glass.

Crazy fucking life 🫠

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Moments like these make it especially laughable when some try to claim that there's no difference between Russia and Ukraine.

[Nikki Haley @NikkiHaley]

Russia has been barred from competing in the Olympics since they started a war in Ukraine. Nothing has changed. It’s an absolute disgrace the IOC would clear them to compete while Putin continues to bomb Ukrainian cities and hold their land.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

This week Kyiv was hit by missiles & Irish politicians are STILL defending the refinery supplying Russia’s war machine.

Today, another ship sailed from Ireland to Russia.

For years, the government tried to cover this up. Now the truth is coming out

Watch my full investigation:

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

It’s more like a big bully decided to attack another kid minding his own business at the park, and the kid decided to fight back rather than be dominated. And the bystanders should help defeat the bully at the park.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Reminder that Ukraine is hitting military targets and Russia is almost exclusively targeting civilian population centers.

[Enrico Letta @EnricoLetta]

America 🇺🇸 we love.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Canada’s Ismaël Koné suffered a brutal injury in Canada’s last World Cup match vs Qatar. He returned to his team waiting on him after leaving the hospital

Some things.