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Fully KeptForeign Policy / Ukraine

Pledged to maintain a bipartisan commitment to send Ukraine the military support it needs to win the war, including armor, air defense, and aircraft.

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Fully KeptFact-checker reviewConfidence: 75%

Both cited sources are reachable and support the FULL rating. Source 1 (the official Senate roll call, vote 118_2_00154) confirms every element the rating relies on: bill H.R. 815, April 23, 2024, tally 79 Yeas / 18 Nays / 3 Not Voting, "Motion to Concur in the House Amendment to the Senate Amendment," and Risch voting Yea. This is the enacted national-security supplemental that appropriated roughly $61B for Ukraine including military assistance; the rating's source-1 "quote" is a reconstruction of the roll-call record but is factually accurate in every particular, so it is not fabricated. This is strong primary evidence that Risch voted for the package delivering the military support the promise names. Source 2 (the Risch/Crapo release, April 23, 2024) is reachable and the quoted verbatim phrase "forcing Russia to pay for its crimes" appears; it corroborates Risch's support for passage of the supplemental that "provided assistance to Ukraine," though it emphasizes the REPO Act (reconstruction via seized Russian assets) and does not itself itemize armor, air defense, or aircraft. That is a minor weakness, not a disqualifier: the promise is to "maintain a bipartisan commitment to send Ukraine the military support it needs," and a Yea vote on the bipartisan (79-18) enacted supplemental directly evidences keeping it. The rating appropriately declined CHAMPIONED — Risch's authored/led achievement (the REPO Act) is reconstruction funding, not military hardware, so he was a consistent supporter rather than the singular driver of the arms component. FULL does not overstate the evidence. Confidence is moderate rather than high because the military-hardware specifics rest largely on the single roll-call vote (source 1), with source 2 only loosely tied to that component.

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