House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has sought to elevate Spartz, adding her to the procession of lawmakers that will formally enter the chamber for the State of the Union on Tuesday evening.Īnd in another sign of Spartz’s importance to the GOP’s response on the issue, McCarthy invoked her name when pressed by reporters on whether Republicans are reluctant to publicly attack Biden over his Russia response.
But just give us some guns, so we don’t just fight with sticks.’ ” “She told my mom … ‘No, don’t cry, we are not crying here. This is barbaric and brutal,” Spartz said at the news conference.
But she says she never ever experienced anything like this, ever. Spartz has been trying to stay in constant contact with her family and friends in Ukraine, listening to their needs and then relaying them publicly from her perch in Congress. Spartz’s grandmother, who is 95, lives in Chernihiv, several hours north of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, which is under attack by Russian forces. When asked whether her family and friends are safe in Ukraine, Spartz replied: “No one is safe in that country.” Or this blood of many millions of Ukrainians will be on his hands, too.” “I think we’ll get together as Republicans and Democrats, but he must act decisively – fast. “This President needs to get his act together and exercise some leadership,” she said, flanked by dozens of her Republican colleagues. Spartz, who also attended a bipartisan briefing on Capitol Hill this week with the Ukrainian ambassador and has been in contact with the administration, then spoke publicly at a House GOP news conference, where she called on Biden to act “decisively” to stop Russia’s assault on Ukraine or else he is going to have “blood” on his hands. The latter speech received a standing ovation, and was described by attendees as “powerful” and “moving.” Spartz has addressed her colleagues twice behind closed doors to talk about the Ukraine crisis: first in February, and then again on Tuesday ahead of Biden’s first State of the Union address. I lived it by proxy from my parents,” Salazar added. “She is the true voice against socialism … because she lived it on the skin.
“People that have been here for three, four generations, that have been American all this time, they have forgotten what the other side looks like.” Maria Elvira Salazar, a Florida Republican whose parents fled Cuba. “She gets it, just like I get it, because we’re Americans but we grew up with another perspective,” said fellow freshmen Rep. Having grown up in the Soviet Union, Spartz brings a unique, firsthand perspective to the current debate that few of her colleagues have, they say. Her colleagues say that Spartz, who immigrated to the United States in 2000 after meeting her husband, an Indiana native, in Europe, is perfectly suited for this moment. Spartz, 43, has emerged as one of the House GOP’s most important and powerful voices on the Russia-Ukraine conflict at a time when the party is attempting to balance its criticism of President Joe Biden’s foreign policy moves with a reluctance to undermine the commander in chief amid an international crisis and potentially eviscerate the chances for a strong bipartisan response. How many he’s going to kill? Well, I’ll tell you: He’s going to kill all of them, and as many as he can if we don’t do something about it.”
#VICTORIA SPARTZ FREE#
… And the free world is standing and watching. It’s a genocide of the Ukrainian people by a crazy man, who cannot get over that Ukrainian people do not want to be with Soviet Union,” Spartz told CNN, choking back tears as she donned a yellow dress and blue blazer in honor of the Ukrainian flag. “I think we need to understand the situation in Ukraine. She also is advocating for refugees and drawing attention to the horrors of the humanitarian crisis that is quickly unfolding. Spartz is calling for stiffer sanctions, immediate aid and more military resources, saying the Ukrainian people want more weapons – not troops – because they want to fight the Russians themselves. All the while, Spartz is dealing with the emotional toll of watching the bloody invasion unfold, knowing she still has friends and family – including her grandmother – who are in Ukraine. Little did she know that after just one year on the job, that distinction would take on even greater significance as Russia brutally invades her home country and the United States debates what to do about it.Īs a freshman, the Indiana Republican is using her microphone in Congress to make passionate pleas for a stronger US response to the rapidly escalating crisis in Ukraine, and hoping her personal connection to the conflict will make the message resonate more strongly. Victoria Spartz was elected to the House in 2020, she became the first Ukrainian-born member of Congress.
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