President Joe Biden is trying to “start World War III in Russia” by sending more U.S.-made missiles to Ukraine, according to U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn).

Tuberville criticized Biden on "The Ingraham Angle" on Fox News Channel on Monday for transferring more long-range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine in the final months of his presidency. Ukraine used the missiles on targets in Russia for the first time on Tuesday. Russia has threatened nuclear retaliation.

“Look at what Joe Biden did yesterday. He approved $100 million worth of ATACMS to go to Ukraine to start World War III in Russia while he’s looking for the spotted owl over in the Amazon. Nobody knows where that money is coming from. They just pull from here, pull from there. Audit is a bad word up here. The entire time I’ve been here. It’s always a bad word,” Tuberville said on Monday.

According to Fox News, the Department of Defense failed its seventh consecutive audit on Friday because it was unable to fully account for its massive $824 billion budget.

"Seventh straight audit failure," Tuberville said on X on Monday, “$824 billion and we don’t even know where it went.”

He added, "Change is coming."

Tuberville also said on Monday that President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Defense Secretary nominee, Pete Hegseth, would do a “good job.”

“He knows numbers. He understands the military. He’s got to come out swinging, but that’s the reason the Democrats don’t want him in there because he will go in there and change the entire landscape, and it needs to be done that way. We need to knock two sides off that Pentagon and go to a triangle,” Tuberville said.

He continued, “We make a lot of weapons in Alabama. In Huntsville, we have all these defense contractors, but listen, we need the best military in the world but the best military is not spending money on other countries, giving money away.” 

“It’s about recruiting the best young men and women here, training them the right way, and giving them the best things they can have to defend this country,” Tuberville added.

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