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Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) pushed back against his party’s increasing line that a weeks-long, delicate bipartisan Senate deal being crafted on foreign defense aid to Ukraine and border security should be rejected purely for the sake of waiting until they can put former President Donald Trump back in office to do something more one-sided. Doing that isn’t productive, and — he suggested — would be bad for Republican messaging. “I reject the idea we should reserve a crisis for a better time to solve it,” Cramer told CNN congressional correspondent Manu Raju. “I don’t see how we have a better story …