WASHINGTON, D.C. — The House Intelligence Committee held a rare public hearing to highlight the immediate threat that members said Russia poses to U.S. national security. The hearing was held the same day that House Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled a series of funding bills, including a standalone $60.1 billion Ukraine wartime aid bill.

Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Turner, R-Ohio, said classified information currently coming in about the war in Ukraine was so alarming that the committee opted to hold a public hearing with testimony from four former committee members.

Witnesses included former Congresswoman Jane Harman, who was ranking member of the Intelligence Committee for four years after 9/11 and has also served as a member of the Defense Policy Board and the National Intelligence Board. Harman urged House members to move on long-stalled funding for Ukraine.

“This is an existential crisis to the West, not just for Ukrainians who are dying on the battlefield as we dither here,” she said.

The push for assistance faces stiff opposition in both the House and Senate from a group of hard-right Republicans, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio.

“We’re stretched too thin as a country, and I think what’s most important for our President right now is to engage in diplomacy, try to bring this conflict to a close and allow America to focus on some core hotspots around the world, rather than focusing on everything all at once,” Vance said.

Turner said Ukraine was precisely where the U.S. needed to focus its attentions because a Russian victory there would endanger the national security of Western countries around the world.

“One of the questions people have is, do we need to do this now? The intelligence is clear: we are at a crisis, so we need to pass this funding for Ukraine now,” Turner said after the hearing.

Turner said he would support any effort to fund Ukraine as soon as possible, whether through the $95 billion national security package—with $60.1 billion for Ukraine—that the Senate passed in February, or the standalone Ukraine aid bill released Wednesday.

“I will support the Speaker’s efforts to bring Ukraine funding in a bill to the floor,” Turner said.

A classified intelligence hearing on Tuesday revealed Ukraine’s situation on the ground was “critical,” Turner said. He asked to release a declassified version of the hearing as soon as possible in order to help convince lawmakers to approve Ukraine funding.

For any Ukraine aid bill to pass the House, Speaker Johnson will likely need significant support from Democrats, which could trigger a push by some Republicans to oust him. Many Democrats have said they would vote to keep Johnson as Speaker if he brings Ukraine funding to the floor.