Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) celebrated the Senate’s passage of a $95 billion defense bill on Tuesday as a sign of America’s “resolve” in the face of Russian aggression.

But it also served as an implicit, if temporary, rebuke of former President Donald Trump, whose opposition to the aid has fueled months of intraparty drama over the future of U.S. foreign policy.

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