Mr Schatz, a member of the Senate Defense Credit Subcommittee, spoke in the upper room Thursday to support Christopher Lowman, Biden’s chosen one, to serve as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Vitality. He said Mr Lowman needed to be replaced because of the importance of logistical support to the Biden administration’s efforts to help Ukraine’s defense against Russia. “Any US mission also needs a strong supply chain. This means you can carry troops, medical supplies, fuel, tents, anything else around the world at any time. “And this is no longer an abstraction,” Schatz said. “We have seen what happens when he is not in place. “We see it in real time with Russia’s equipment and training problems in Ukraine.” The Hawaiian Democrat noted that Mr. Hawley, a first-time senator considered by many observers to be the candidate for the 2024 presidency, has become accustomed to blocking Biden’s defense candidates because he wants Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to resign over his resignation. of the US from Afghanistan. . When he tried to ask the Senate to consider the candidacy, Mr. Howley objected and spoke of what he described as a “failure” of the United States in Ukraine, accusing Biden of denying the “deadly aid” of the Zelensky government. and encouraging Russian President Vladimir Putin, lifting sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project when he took office. He said he would continue to oppose Biden’s Pentagon candidates “until there is accountability,” citing his repeated call to Austin and other Biden administration officials to resign. In response, Mr Schatz accused Mr Hawley of using Mr Lowman’s candidacy as “an excuse to cross the line of criticism of the Biden government” and said the Missouri Republican was “hurting the Department of Defense”. inadvertently. “We have superiors [Pentagon] leaders, we have the [Senate] The Armed Forces Committee comes to us and says: “I do not know what to say to him. “I do not know how to satisfy him, but he is blocking senior staff at the Department of Defense,” said Mr Schatz, adding that Mr Hawley’s support for the January 6 uprising and his previous opposition to sending deadly aid to the Ukraine made his objection even gloomier. “Is this coming from a guy who raised his fist in solidarity with the insurgents? Is this from a guy who, before the Russian invasion, suggested that maybe it would be wise for Zelensky to make some concessions about Ukraine and their willingness to join NATO? This comes from a guy who, just a month ago, voted against aid to Ukraine, and this latest insult is that until – what – Minister Austin resigns? “This is not a reasonable request,” he said. “This is absurd – and it comes from a man who acquitted Donald Trump of blackmailing Zelensky of excluding deadly aid. They cut off the deadly aid until – unless – Zelensky issued false slanders against his son Joe Biden and then voted to acquit President Trump for it. “Well, leave me the new solidarity with the Ukrainians and the free world, because this man’s record is just the opposite.”
