Trump’s help plan for Ukraine is gaining criticism from the GOP as a feet in Europe

The legislators had long opposed to provide help to Ukraine is now on board, although carefully. President Donald Trump’s plan to help the war effort comes with a twist because Washington will not pay for weapons sent to Kyiv.

Months after calling the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “dictator” and wondering if he even wanted to end the war with Russia, Trump apparently pivoted his frustrations to President Vladimir Putin.

Now the United States will provide weapons to Ukraine using European money.

Same vice-president Jd vance is favorable to the decision.

NATO chief praises Trump’s arms sales to allies as a “significant” movement that could force Putin to negotiate

At a White House meeting on Monday with NATO secretary general, Mark Rutte, Trump said that a “very big problem” had been agreed by Europeans to buy “billions of dollars in military equipment” for Ukraine. (Images Kevin Dietsch / Getty)

“Vice-President Vance completely supports President Trump’s plan to save American taxpayers to finance the conflict in Ukraine indefinitely and remains attached to the president’s goal of ending blood in Eastern Europe,” a spokesperson for Vance in Fox News Digital.

“While Joe Biden stupidly sent billions of American funds to Ukraine, President Trump put America first and has concluded an intelligent agreement that puts the burden on our allies in Europe to pay help from Ukraine.”

As part of the Biden administration, Vance brought a different tone.

Trump says that we are sending wet missiles in Ukraine, adds that Putin speaks well and then he bomb everyone ‘

“It is not only a question of dollars. Basically, we do not have the capacity to manufacture the quantity of weapons that Ukraine needs that we provide to win the war,” he wrote in an editorial of the New York Times last year. “The Biden administration has no viable plan for Ukrainians to win this war.”

Less than two years ago, the House Republicans ousted the speaker Kevin McCarthy for a “secret agreement” to finance Ukraine. Months later, the speaker Mike Johnson risked the same fate on a Ukrainian package that most of its members voted.

But last week, Trump suddenly defined a Pentagon review which interrupted arms expeditions to Ukraine. Now, with the new European country model of Trump, weapons flow and resistance fades.

Ukrainian soldiers from the 115th Mortar Unit brigade are organizing mortar training as members of the anti-UAV unit are testing an FPV drone inhibitor in Lyman, Ukraine. (Jose Colon / Anadolu via Getty Images)

After having repeatedly criticized Zelenskyy and questioned the war objectives of Ukraine, Trump now says that Putin may not be serious about peace.

“We get a lot of bulls — We launched by Putin,” said Trump at a recent meeting of the cabinet. “It is very nice all the time, but it turns out that it does not make sense.”

The face has given republican coverage to reframe their positions – even if they remain skeptical.

“I think they will have to justify it, why now?” said Ralph Norman, RS.C., who voted against all of Ukraine’s additional financing packages.

“When Biden did it, he didn’t know what he was doing. It was just money going in all directions,” he added. “But there will be a lot of debates on this subject, as it should be.”

Successful strikes on Iranian nuclear sites were a victory for interventionism, say certain legislators, and have apparently appeased the isolationist feeling.

“I am trusting the generals right now,” said Norman when he was asked if he thought that more weapons would prolong or shorten war. “They would do the right thing in Ukraine.”

The Senate is moving to brake the fluctuation policy of the Ukraine Trump AdministrationFirst year representative Brandon Gill, R-Texas, said that he still considered Trump’s policy as a return to “realism and restraint”.

“Many people in this country have been burned by an overly zealous foreign policy,” said Gill. “Getting involved in conflicts abroad without understanding what a path to peace would look like, which victory really means. And President Trump is reinstating this.

“He does things a little differently, is to bring NATO on board, and it’s a good thing.”

In March, when the administration interrupted military aid, Gill celebrated Trump “leading a knife through Unigarty foreign policy”.

Not everyone is on board. The representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of the greatest supporters of the president who also led the effort to oust Johnson on the financing of Ukraine, suggested that the Americans focused on affordability rather than helping the war effort.

“We do not want to give or sell weapons to Ukraine or be involved in foreign wars or continue the endless flow of foreign aid. We want to solve our own problems that afflict our own people,” she wrote on X.

The representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-GA., Leaves the Capitol Hill Club after a meeting of the House Republican Conference on Tuesday March 25, 2025. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, included via Getty Images)

Representative Andrew Clyde, R-GA., Qualified the new US-NATO plan for Ukraine Aid “Grand”.

“I think more weapons will shorten (war),” he said. “We look at the NATO that bought weapons. It is a good thing there.”

“”Putin must understand that our patience is short. And he needs to understand that it is Vladimir Putin against the world, “said representative Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis.

Last year, Van Orden mocked against the Biden administration for omitting a plan to end the war. This time, the idea that Europe hides the bill seems to have sold it.

“”Europe must intensify and preponderance from their own defense, “he told Fox News Digital.

Van Orden blamed the invasion of the European allies of NATO not reaching their target of 2% for defense expenses.

“”IF NATO members went to 2% of GDP ten years ago when they promised, do you think Vladimir Putin would have invaded Ukraine? “Asked Van Orden.

A resident walks among the debris near a damaged house one day after a Russian strike on a suburb of Odesa, in southern Ukraine, on March 7, 2025, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Oleksandr Gimanova / AFP via Getty Images)

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At a White House meeting on Monday with NATO secretary general, Mark Rutte, Trump said that a “very big problem” had been agreed by Europeans to buy.

“Billions of dollars of military equipment will be purchased in the United States, going to NATO … and this will be quickly distributed on the battlefield,” said Trump.

Trump said the package would be complete, including batteries of patriotic missiles that Ukraine needs for the air defenses.

“That’s it. These are the patriots. It’s all. It is a complete complement with the batteries,” said Trump.