senator ernst, what about the senator? she mentions the ukraine war and the bipartisan impact of support for ukraine. your party has had some fractures about wondering whether the money is worth it, whether it is worth the long term. there have been questions about that. how do you project your working together and where that stands now? first, the ukrainian are hungering for freedom, and i saw that in 1989 when i was a young college student living on a collective farm in ukraine, which was the old soviet union. and as we came together as young american students
seeing how soviet, how the ukrainians lived, deepened my love of country, and that compelled me to recognize the strength, freedom and leadership we far too often take for granted. when i returned home, i joined army rotc and it was the best decision i have ever made. i served for 23 years in uniform, including my time as a company commander, leading 150 soldiers during operation iraqi freedom. my deployment sealed my intent to pursue lifelong service to our great country. america is imperfect, but our freedom, our concept of liberty and inalienable rights and the lengths we re willing to go to protect them comprise the most exceptional nation on earth. the founding fathers prescribed a federal government with limited responsibilities, a government of the people, by the people, and for the people
but they also need additional equipment. they need canines to to alert on vehicles that are bringing that illegal fentanyl and drugs into the united states. they just need more in order to do their jobs. it s not just good enough to go to the southern border and get a photo op. you know, folks like senator shaheen and i are very serious about finding solutions. and so we went into mexico, met with authorities in mexico city to talk about how we can collaborate between the mexican government, the mexican military, the united states governmental agencies and our military to find a solution. senator tim kaine and i are currently working on a piece of legislation that would push back against fentanyl, and it would allow greater collaboration between our two governments and our militaries to push back on fentanyl. gina and i are on her act as well. jane s a lead sponsor on the. yes. and so there are a number of things
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and our host families, those host families asked us questions and we expected that we would talk about agriculture. but they were asking us about what it was like to be an american and what it was like to be free. and that struck me at that time how incredibly important it was to support whether it was ukraine or any of the old soviet bloc countries in their efforts for freedom. here we are all those decades later, and they still want to be free. russia has invaded a sovereign nation. it is important to our own national security to step up and provide what they need to defeat the russians. russia is one of the top four adversaries of the united states. the ukrainians are doing an incredible job of pushing back our adversary. and because of what they have done in ukraine and these incredible fighters, we see a diminished capacity