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Rep. Thomas Massie

Kentucky · District 4

Ukraine Support Grade

F Very Poor
  • Voted against 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 in favor of 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

  • “It is not charity. Charity would be given freely. The American taxpayers have been conscripted into making welfare payments to this foreign government.”

  • “There are some people who can’t in good conscience take a vote for the [Defense Department] approps bill if it includes money for a war that they are morally opposed to.”

  • “To support this money, you’d have to be economically illiterate and morally deficient. Those are the conditions for boting for this. … It’s morally reprehensible to say you should fund this.”