Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) announced Friday that he will strip funding for Ukraine out of a Pentagon spending bill after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) joined conservatives in blocking the legislation from advancing earlier this week.
McCarthy said he would remove the $300 million for Ukraine currently in the Pentagon appropriations bill and hold a separate vote on the funding.
“It would be out and voted on by itself,” McCarthy said when asked about the Ukraine aid in the Pentagon appropriations bill.
The Speaker’s announcement comes one day after a band of five conservatives opposed a procedural vote for the Pentagon appropriations bill, sinking the effort and preventing the legislation from moving forward. It was the second time this week that hard-liners blocked the funding bill from advancing.
Man the Republicans changed. Not 40 years ago everything red is dead, and now they’re falling over eachother to be able to suck Putin’s dick. Anything for money and power, no?
The weird thing is just that people somehow don’t see this?
Because they have finally realized that modern day Russia is not the Soviet Union. They fucking love what Putin has done to Russia. Putin has turned Russia into a fascist state supported by the Russian Orthodox Church. The Republicans wish they could do the same to the US.
I’m from Central America, Republicans and Americans started a proxy war and used as all as fodder, made us fight a civil war where each side was funded by Americans and Russians. They made us all fight and die just to keep the Russians out of this side of the world. They killed so many of our people and torched our country, just so they can call us racist names for fleeing the war to the u.s, and they can suck Putin dick and give in to the Russians they killed us over.
Cognitive dissonance is a hell of a thing. These are people who refuse to admit when they’re wrong, so rather than admit that they were wrong about the Republicans, they just find ways to justify it instead to soothe their psyche. And the people running the show know this and use this to great effect.
Try 10-11 years ago. Republicans were still pointing to Russia as the biggest threat to the US at the time. They still weren’t right but it’s a 180 turn to now.
The weird thing is just that people somehow don’t see this?
I have the unfortunate privilege of having to hear right wing rumble shit almost daily. These people are repeatedly being fed whatever the Kremlin says and literally everyone else is wrong. The sad part is you can go back months and none of the shit (not just wrt Ukraine) has ever materialized but they kept getting promised that it will. And the globalist elite is going to be destroyed by Rump any day now. He has them right where he wants them and only he can save us! And yes, that is word for word something I’ve heard countless times.
McCarthy might be the biggest coward in Congress. And there’s a lot of competition for that title.
so how the hell did it flip so hard? “russia bad” used to be the most simple thing they rallied behind.
Money, kompromat, a model for their vision of fascism, who can say …
Speaker of the what?
Punk ass bitches
Kevin McCarthy, Speaker of the Punk Ass Bitches.
It does roll off the tongue.
Green is a scab on our country
Scabs heal. She’s a cancerous tumor.
Good job McFucksy, waste more of the Americans tax dollars doing dumb shit. Flesh waster.
Well, why don’t we have every single line item in its own bill then, and vote up or down on every single thing? Perhaps every individual word could be its own bill.
Honestly, I feel like maybe that’s the way it should be.
It’s idealistic, I know, but I really dislike the idea of tit for tat pork being attached to get routine government programs funded.
The problem is these assholes prefer to extract everything they can through brinksmanship and spinning tires rather than actually going to the compromise they all know will be settled on.
Fucking weasel.
She is like a Karen’s final form.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) announced Friday that he will strip funding for Ukraine out of a Pentagon spending bill after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) joined conservatives in blocking the legislation from advancing earlier this week.
McCarthy said he would remove the $300 million for Ukraine currently in the Pentagon appropriations bill and hold a separate vote on the funding.
The Speaker’s announcement comes one day after a band of five conservatives opposed a procedural vote for the Pentagon appropriations bill, sinking the effort and preventing the legislation from moving forward.
The rule failed for a second time on the same day that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with lawmakers in the Capitol.
“Our defense appropriations bill should never be going to fund a proxy war with Russia in Ukraine, so this is a victory for common sense,” she later added.
The failed rule vote Thursday was a blow to McCarthy, who has sought to advance the appropriations process ahead of a Sept. 30 shutdown deadline — to no avail.
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Good, no more foreign wars, this isn’t what democrats should be focused on
We’re funding Ukraine so we won’t have to fight a foreign war.
Hey, that’s two steps of logic, that’s cleary too much for them.
Damn it’d be nice to be this naive again.
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No more foreign wars until WWIII
Guess the US should also close every forward operating base then and let our allies in East Asia fend for themselves against China and North Korea.
