Schumer Warns Senate Republicans Over Allowing Putin to ‘Roll Through Europe’ By Cutting Aid: Reagan Is ‘Rolling In His Grave’

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) warned his Republican colleagues “to think” carefully about their upcoming votes regarding aid to Ukraine and declared Ronald Reagan would be “rolling in his grave” at the idea some in his own party would enable Putin to “roll through Europe.”

“And if Republicans want to bring up immigration right now, right in the middle of trying to pass aid to Ukraine and other issues, the onus is on them to present serious bipartisan proposals that can get broad support from Democrats, not just 1 or 2 Democrats,” Schumer said, referencing House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) Tuesday proposal to tie the two issues together.

“And if Republicans are unable to produce a bipartisan, a broadly bipartisan immigration proposal, they should not block aid to Ukraine in response. They should not be resorting to hostage taking, as the senator from Texas seems to be admitting,” Schumer continued, adding:

That would be madness. Utter madness. It would be an insult to our Ukrainian friends who are fighting their lives against Russian autocracy and could go down as a major turning point where the West didn’t live up to its responsibilities and things turned away from our democracies and our values and towards autocracy. Ronald Reagan would be rolling in his grave, rolling in his grave if he saw his own party let Vladimir Putin roll through Europe. So once again, I urge my Republican colleagues to think carefully, carefully about what’s at stake with this week’s vote.

Watch the full clip above.