Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-Schuylerville, who is considered a candidate for vice president under Donald Trump, speaks during the House Select Committee on Intelligence annual open hearing on worldwide threats at the Capitol in Washington on March 9, 2023. (AP photo — Carolyn Kaster)

North Country Rep. Elise Stefanik was among 112 Republicans who voted against a $60.8 billion aid package for Ukraine over the weekend.

The Ukraine aid was part of a broader $95.3 billion package — which was split into four separate bills and, after each passed, melded together again — that included aid for Israel, Taiwan and other U.S. allies. The package also includes a sweetener for Conservatives: A bill that would ban TikTok in the U.S., unless Chinese company ByteDance sells its stake in the popular video sharing app.

“Since before Russia’s unprovoked and illegal invasion into Ukraine, I have strongly advocated deterrence through strength and supported Ukraine’s right to defend itself with lethal aid, including weapons, munitions and training,” Stefanik said in a statement on Tuesday. “However, I cannot support billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars of non-lethal aid while Joe Biden continues his failure to address his crisis at our southern border.”

Despite opposition from hard-right Republicans to the Ukraine portion of the package, it passed 311-112. After a months-long stalemate as House Republicans sought to tie foreign aid to U.S. border security measures, the entire $95.3 billion aid deal has now been sent to the Senate, which could vote to pass the package as soon as today, the Associated Press reported Sunday.

Stefanik voted in support of a procedural measure that authorized separate debate and votes for each of the four bills in the aid package. She voted to support the aid for Taiwan as it seeks to counter China. She also voted alongside the majority of other House members in support of aid to Israel as it continues its war in Gaza. On Sunday, Stefanik blasted the Biden Administration over reports that it may impose sanctions on an Israel Defense Forces battalion for its alleged human rights violations in the West Bank.

“Israel is currently fighting for her right to exist and at a time when our greatest ally needs us the most, Joe Biden and Secretary Blinken are choosing to purposefully undermine Israel to appease the pro-Hamas faction of the Democratic Party,” Stefanik wrote on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

Stefanik, the House GOP Conference Chair, was the lone member of House Republican leadership to join a majority of Republicans, including the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, in voting against the aid to Ukraine.

In February 2022, after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, Stefanik said in a statement that she joined “the American people in praying for the safety of innocent Ukrainians as they endure an unwarranted and unjustified invasion by a gutless, bloodthirsty, authoritarian dictator.”

“Vladimir Putin is a war criminal and deranged thug,” she wrote. “We must stand with democracies under assault. If peace is to prevail, the United States and NATO must respond with the only language Putin understands – strength. It’s long past time President Biden take swift and devastating action to cripple the Russian economy and impose severe irrecoverable consequences on the corrupt regime of Vladimir Putin.”

Though aid for Ukraine had bipartisan support in the early months following Russia’s invasion, many Republicans have expressed opposition to providing further aid to Ukraine as the war enters a third year. House Speaker Mike Johnson relied on votes from Democrats to push the new aid for Ukraine through the House over the weekend, less than one week after a Washington-based think tank, Institute for the Study of War, warned that any further delays in aid could inhibit Ukraine’s ability to hold off Russian offensive operations as it contends with dwindling ammunition and a shortage of troops. More than 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in February. An estimated 315,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded, according to a declassified U.S. intelligence report in December.

Former president and Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump has argued that any further Ukraine aid be structured as a loan that would need to be repaid. The bill passed by the House over the weekend includes a provision that would ask that $10 billion in assistance already sent to Ukraine be repaid, but the president would also be authorized to forgive those loans in 2026.

Paula Collins, Stefanik’s Democratic challenger in the race to represent NY-21, did not respond for comment by deadline Monday when asked how she would have voted on the aid package. Scott Phillip Lewis, a NY-21 candidate seeking to gain ballot access on an independent line, also did not respond for comment by deadline Monday.