Welcome to left right and center. I'm McKay Coppins, staff writer at the Atlantic, and your host this week filling in for David Green.

The US is set to give tens of billions of dollars in new aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.

President Biden signed a $95 billion foreign aid package.

This was a major priority for the President, and the package had overwhelming bipartisan support in Congress.

But getting it passed was a hard fought battle in the House and the Senate and it could yet

topple House Speaker Mike Johnson. Johnson worked with Democrats to pass the bill because the far right faction of his conference

opposed the Ukraine funding in particular.

And in the Senate, outgoing minority leader Mitch McConnell successfully rallied a majority of

Republican support, something he was unable to do when this funding was

previously up for a vote. McConnell sounded straight up victorious over the

right flank of his party when he talked

to reporters this week. I think we've turned the corner on the isolationist movement.

I've noticed how uncomfortable proponents of that are when you call them isolationist. So I think we've made some progress and I think it's going to have to continue because we've got big problems.

We've got our regular left right and center panel here to discuss this divide on foreign

aid and where it leaves the party we have mow alaithy executive director at

Georgetown University's Institute of Politics and Public Service he was also

communications director for the Democratic National Committee and at the

Department of Justice under President Trump.

Hi guys.

Hey McKay.

Welcome, McKay.

I'm excited to be here with you. As you should be.

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