A huge “F” on Ukraine.
Not one penny that has been sent to this sh*tshow has been ACCOUNTED for. We do not really know where it went or how it is being spent. All that we do know is that our Tax Dollars could be put to much better use right here, at home.
The House has been far too silent on demanding answers to even the most basic of questions on this matter.
I have just counted up the No To Ukraine seats plus the Neutral categories and it sums to the majority of the Republican caucus.
Funding should not even get a vote. It could certainly be passed with Dem votes plus a minority of GOP caucus seats, but that is the absolutely verboten condition if you want to hold the Speakership. It is what drove Boehner out.
You must not pass bills over the majority of your own caucus. This is just not permissible.
I don’t think this Zelensky trip is going to move GOP seats. The majority against is not tiny.
Well, we DO know a fair amount of old US weaponry has been going to Ukraine, because (aside from geolocated vids and such), we have people right here on FR screaming it’s gonna cause WW3, and we have the Russians bitterly complaining about those weapons too.
It’s really not a lot of weaponry sent vs. the size of the war (either 20 or 24 HIMARS out of the ~500 now in US stocks, for example), but in absolute $$ terms, it adds up.
Given our current Administration, it’s more likely that if the $$ were “used at home” they’d just cause more damage.
Whatever happened to the concept amongst conservatives of limiting social spending, anyway?