Republican congressman Jim Banks of Indiana says “the crisis at the border is the number one issue that every group of Republicans who I speak to across the state of Indiana asks about.” And Indiana is not even a border state; just imagine the desperation for state such as Texas and Arizona.

Banks believes congress needs to shift its foreign policy to end U.S. aid to Ukraine until at least our southern border is secure. “No more money to secure Ukraine’s border until we secure our own,” Rep. Jim Banks, R-Indiana, said in a keynote speech at the Indiana Republican Party’s recent 2023 State Dinner.

“The crisis at the border is the number one issue that every group of Republicans who I speak to across the state of Indiana asks about,” Banks said. “Hoosier voters want to know that they’re electing leaders to Congress who are more focused on solving our problems.”

Banks mentioned that among the dangers with Biden’s failing border policies is the increase of drugs flooding the country. “With me, they know they’re going to get someone who’s focused on solving our own open-border fentanyl epidemic that’s killing a record number of Hoosiers—and is the leading cause of death [in Indiana],” Banks told The Daily Signal.

As for Ukraine, ”There’s no accountability for the flow of money sent to Ukraine,” he said. “With the current administration asking for another supplemental spending bill, we’re talking about well over $100 billion spent on what’s going on in Ukraine.”

Banks voted against a $1.7 trillion spending package in December that included a $40 billion supplemental aid package for Ukraine.

“We have to be on the side of America first—in restoring and rebuilding America—[and] then we can be the leaders around the globe that America has traditionally been,” he said. “America can’t lead abroad when we’re so weak at home, and Reagan understood that. Trump understood that. There are too many Republicans today who don’t understand that.”