The former GOP representative praised those who supported the $60.8 billion package on Saturday.
Former Representative Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican, praised House members on Saturday for passing a supplemental funding package for Ukraine, calling it a vote “to stand for freedom.”
After resistance from some Republican lawmakers, the House passed a $60.8 billion aid bill for Kyiv in a 311-112 vote Saturday to help restock Ukraine’s arsenal amid Russia’s invasion that began in February 2022. The bill was brought to the floor by House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, who, despite facing an unprivileged motion to vacate from Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, said in a speech Thursday that supporting Ukraine was “the right thing.”
“Ukrainians fighting on the front lines of freedom should not have had to wait so long for this U.S. aid,” Cheney wrote in a post to X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday afternoon. “Today, 311 members of the House defied Trump & the GOP Putin caucus. They voted to stand for freedom against the evil of Putin & his allies in Iran and around the world.”
Cheney was House Republicans’ third-ranked leader until she emerged as a vocal critic of Donald Trump for his actions surrounding the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. She eventually lost her position as chair of the House Republican Conference and then lost the 2022 primary election in Wyoming to Trump-endorsed Harriet Hageman.
