House GOP lawmakers like Freedom Caucus Chair Bob Good, R-Va., left, and Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., right, are staking out their positions on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's request for more aid. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images | Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto via Getty Images | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
"We cannot continue to borrow and spend money we don’t have for wars overseas while failing to protect Americans from the Biden border invasion here at home," Good told Fox News Digital earlier this week. "At a bare minimum, any package for military aid to Ukraine should be fully offset and must include H.R. 2 with performance metrics to secure our own border."
The position has since been echoed by other members of the House GOP’s right flank. Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., told Fox News Digital on Friday, "Any lethal military assistance to Ukraine that fails to meet these critical requirements is a total nonstarter."
"House Republicans were tasked with getting our country back on track — starting with cutting spending and securing the southern border," Clyde explained. "Abandoning these priorities while advancing a pricey package to defend Ukraine’s borders would represent an utter betrayal of the American people."
And former Freedom Caucus Chair Scott Perry, R-Pa., told Fox News Digital, "We stand with Ukraine. Our priority, however, must be America… Our debt is $35 trillion next month; any foreign aid package must be heavily scrutinized."
Rep. Ralph Norman, S.C., also called for Ukraine aid to be offset.
Johnson also floated getting some of the funding by liquefying seized Russian assets, a bipartisan plan introduced in the House and Senate last year.
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But those proposals got a lukewarm reception at best from Ukraine funding skeptics.
"I don’t think the conservatives would consider it enough without border security," one senior House GOP aide told Fox News Digital.
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., wrote on X earlier this week, "There’s talk of ‘loaning’ the money & equipment to Ukraine. OK, why not loan the aid to Israel & Taiwan as well? Because they actually have the means to pay back the loan, that’s why. It’s a farce."
Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.
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