{"id":15622,"date":"2024-02-16T00:46:52","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T00:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/16\/vances-office-doubles-down-impeachment-time-bomb-warning-in-foreign-aid-package\/"},"modified":"2024-02-16T00:46:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T00:46:52","slug":"vances-office-doubles-down-impeachment-time-bomb-warning-in-foreign-aid-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/16\/vances-office-doubles-down-impeachment-time-bomb-warning-in-foreign-aid-package\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance\u2019s office doubles down \u2018impeachment time bomb\u2019 warning in foreign aid package"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sen. JD Vance\u2019s office will send a letter to GOP lawmakers Thursday doubling down on the claim that the Ukraine-Israel-Taiwan foreign aid package contains an \u2018impeachment time bomb\u2019 that would tie the hands of the next administration.<\/p>\n

Vance\u2019s memo comes a day after former Vice President Mike Pence\u2019s policy think tank, Advancing American Freedom (AAF), sent a memo to senators dismissing Vance\u2019s claims.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The national security supplemental text assures the delivery of $1.6 billion to finance Ukraine\u2019s military as well as just under $14 billion for Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative through Sept. 30, 2025 \u2013 the same aid mechanism that Trump temporarily paused while pushing for an investigation into Biden family foreign business dealings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

AAF claimed Wednesday that it\u2019s the president\u2019s duty to faithfully execute the law as \u2018written into the Constitution\u2019 \u2014 known as the Take Care clause \u2014 rejecting the argument made by the Nixon administration that the clause \u2019empowered the President to ignore federal statutes.\u2019<\/p>\n

Vance\u2019s office said AAF was actually supporting their point that the Ukraine supplemental would tie Trump\u2019s hands if he returns to the White House.<\/p>\n

\u2018Therefore, they advance the claim that a future president would have a constitutional responsibility to \u2018faithfully execute the law\u2019 that requires him to fund Ukraine well into his second term or face a (fake) claim of a constitutional\/legal violation,\u2019 Vance\u2019s office wrote in the new memo. \u2018That is exactly the claim advanced by the Ukraine Supplemental Impeachment Time Bomb.\u2019<\/p>\n

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\u2018Administration officials have been transparent about efforts to tie the hands of a future presidential administration, with one revealing to the Washington Post that this supplemental bill is a key component of their plan to \u2018future-proof aid for Ukraine against the possibility that former president Donald Trump wins his reelection bid,\u2019\u2019 the memo continued. \u2018Former senior administration officials, including a former director of the Office of Management and Budget, have validated that this supplemental bill may function as a \u2018secret set of handcuffs\u2019 and that opponents of a future president\u2019s Ukraine policy \u2018will use this to try and tie his hands in the initial weeks of his presidency.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, AAF noted in their memo if the president wants to cut off federal aid to Ukraine, he must get approval from Congress in a 45-day timeframe, \u2018otherwise he must dutifully execute the law as written.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

Vance\u2019s office said that rebuttal actually \u2018reinforces\u2019 their position \u2018that this supplemental would tie a future president\u2019s hands on spending in Ukraine or he would risk impeachment from Democrats on the same absurd grounds as President Trump\u2019s first impeachment.\u2019<\/p>\n

The Trump administration,\u00a0through the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), withheld a total of about $400 million in security assistance from Ukraine in 2019. This came just before Trump asked Ukrainian President Voldomyr Zelenskyy to investigate the family of his 2020 rival, Joe Biden, and while the White House allegedly was withholding an Oval Office visit from Zelenskyy in exchange for an investigation.<\/p>\n

These actions are what fueled the impeachment effort against Trump, in which he was ultimately acquitted.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Vance\u2019s memo argues previous Ukraine supplemental bills lacked sunset dates extending into future administrations. The Biden administration requested specific sunset dates in the current bill to extend aid into the next presidential term, which was granted despite most Senate Republicans voting against it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a statement to Fox News Digital, Marc Short, AAF board chairman said \u2018AAF will side with the Constitution on the powers given to Congress and the Executive Branch over Senator Vance\u2019s conspiracies any day.\u2019<\/p>\n

Several other Republican allies of Trump agreed with Vance this week.<\/p>\n

Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., said the provision in the bill \u2018is gonna force him to send money and spend money for Ukraine.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018This is in the bill,\u2019 Tuberville told Fox News Digital. \u2018So, it\u2019s just another situation where the Democrats are doing something and working towards making sure that money\u2019s spent in a certain area where American taxpayers and this country don\u2019t have.\u2019<\/p>\n

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky, also agreed with Vance and claimed that Democrats are \u2018setting up\u2019 for a possible Trump presidential win.<\/p>\n\n

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