For the past week, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has put on a master class of cunning and ruthless political gamesmanship as the Senate has debated a new foreign aid bill that provides funding to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.

Months ago, at the behest of the Republican conference, McConnell initiated negotiations with Senate Democrats to exchange some border security measures for the foreign aid funding bill that the White House and establishment Republicans such as McConnell so desperately want.