U.S. Rep. Zach Nunn says the United States shouldn’t provide Ukraine with any new taxpayer money as Congress negotiates a funding deal to avert a likely government shutdown this week.

Instead, he supports seizing frozen Russian assets and using those dollars to help the war-torn country.

"I don’t think that any taxpayer should have to dig in their pocket to defend somebody else’s border if we can’t first defend our own," Nunn said. "And so I don’t see more money going to Ukraine from taxpayer dollars being the solution." More: Iowa’s Zach Nunn says Senate short-term spending bill likely DOA in […]

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U.S. Rep. Zach Nunn says the United States shouldn’t provide Ukraine with any new taxpayer money as Congress negotiates a funding deal to avert a likely government shutdown this week.

Instead, he supports seizing frozen Russian assets and using those dollars to help the war-torn country.

“I don’t think that any taxpayer should have to dig in their pocket to defend somebody else’s border if we can’t first defend our own,” Nunn said. “And so I don’t see more money going to Ukraine from taxpayer dollars being the solution.” More: Iowa’s Zach Nunn says Senate short-term spending bill likely DOA in […]

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