Alabama Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville says Ukraine CAN’T win the war because they are a ‘junior high team playing a college team’ | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

• ‘At the end of the day, it’s a junior high team playing a college team,’ the Alabama Republican told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham
• Comments come as a funding battle is brewing between Congress and President Biden as the White House prepares to request billions more for Ukraine
• Also comes as Tuberville has remained stalwart in preventing Pentagon promotions from moving forward over the DoD’s abortion policy

Sen. Tommy Tuberville said Monday he did not think Ukraine could ever win the war against Russia. 

‘At the end of the day, it’s a junior high team playing a college team,’ the Alabama Republican told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham Monday night.

‘They can’t win. We can throw all the money we want to, but unless we send NATO and our troops over, which we’re not going to do, if I have got anything to do with it, then there’s no chance.’ 

It’s why Tuberville said he hasn’t supported a single dollar going to the eastern European nation. 

‘I haven’t voted for a dime to send Ukraine,’ Tuberville told Ingraham. ‘I’m for Ukraine. Russia should have never done this. I was in Ukraine three months with President [Volodymyr] Zelensky before this started. They were already fighting to that point.’ 

The senator’s comments come as a funding battle is brewing between Congress and President Biden as the White House prepares to request billions more to send to Ukraine. 

It also comes as Tuberville has remained stalwart in preventing Pentagon promotions from moving forward over the Department of Defense’s policy that assists service members financially if they need to leave the state to obtain an abortion. 

So far the senator has stood in the way of some 300 promotions that need Senate confirmation.  

The White House is expected to formally ask Congress for potentially more than $10 billion in supplemental military and humanitarian aid fo the country amid Ukraine’s lackluster counter-offensive and Russia’s continued bombings of the nation. 

A final number has not been finalized and moving additional funding will be an uphill battle in the divided Congress. The U.S. has already provided more than $60 billion for the war. 

Last month some 70 House Republicans voted to strip Ukraine funding from the annual Defense spending bill – the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). 

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has said he has no plans to take up supplemental defense spending that breach the $886 billion defense cap agreed to in the debt limit deal he negotiated with Biden. 

Tuberville’s comments came in response to a CNN poll that found 55 percent of Americans do not think Congress should authorize more money for Ukraine. A whopping 8 in 10 Americans said they worry the war will continue without a resolution for a long time. 

More than 62,000 have lost their lives since the war’s inception in February 2021 and some 17 million have been displaced from their homes.