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Rep. Jim Banks

Indiana ยท District 3

Ukraine Support Grade

F Very Poor
  • Voted in favor of The Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022, which allowed the lending/lease of American defense materiel to Ukraine.
  • Voted against the 2022 Ukraine Supplemental Appropriation
  • Voted in favor of Amendment 21 to H.R. 2670, the National Defense Authorization Act, which would have stricken $300 million of assistance for Ukraine.
  • Voted in favor of Amendment 22 to H.R. 2670, the National Defense Authorization Act, which would have prohibited all security assistance for Ukraine.
  • Voted against Amendment 25 to H.R. 2670, the National Defense Authorization Act, which would have removed the extension of lend-lease authority to Ukraine
  • Voted against H.R. 5692: Ukraine Security Assistance and Oversight Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2023.
  • Voted against H.R.2882: Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2024.
  • Voted against H.R. 8035: Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024
  • Did not sign a discharge petition
  • Made an anti-Ukraine statement or statements.

Relevant Statements

  • “President Biden, the weakest commander-in-chief ever, embarrassed our country in Afghanistan and has since reduced our critical munition stockpiles to dangerously low levels. We cannot lead abroad while we are so weak at home.”

  • “How did we go from ‘no more aid to Ukraine without securing our own border first’ to the Senate passing $60 billion for Ukraine with no border security provisions? No go in the House!”