Posted on 10/18/2022 5:13:41 PM PDT by RandFan
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is signaling that if Republicans win the House majority in next month’s midterm elections, the GOP is likely to oppose more aid to Ukraine in its war with Russia.
Since the invasion in February the majority of congressional Republicans and Democrats have united in authorizing billions of dollars in U.S. military and humanitarian assistance to Kyiv as a geopolitical and moral stand against Vladimir Putin’s aggression.
McCarthy, who could be House speaker if Republicans triumph, indicated that that could end in a GOP-led House.
“I think people are gonna be sitting in a recession and they’re not going to write a blank check to Ukraine,” he recently told Punchbowl News. “They just won’t do it.”
McCarthy suggested that Americans want Congress to focus on issues closer to home.
The United States has authorized upward of $60 billion in aid to Ukraine, with more than $18.2 billion in security assistance given since January 2021. The Senate voted to finalize more than $40 billion in new military and humanitarian assistance in May, with Republicans being the only lawmakers voting against that package — the largest investment in Ukraine thus far.
Eleven Republican senators and 57 House GOP members opposed the legislation, arguing that more needs to be done to account for how the money is spent and to trace weapons and equipment sent to the battlefield.
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Good they don’t deserve one single penny more in fact the govt goons over there should return the money
McCarthy does whatever McTurtle tells him to do.
Now the Neocons will have to figure out a way to politically ‘take out’ McCarthy and replace him with a pro-WW3 Republican.
Now we’re talking! No neos.
Just “likely”, Kevin? Sounds the drool of a UniParty hack.
He and Mitch both need to be gone.
I just hope they are not trying to attract the type of people who were heckling AOC the other day.
It’s a funny old world
What about aid for more commie Fauci research?
I tend to agree. This is a European issue. Why we have allowed this to fester can only be explained, that Ukraine must be blackmailing Biden.
Good. Time to quit breaking Americans.
We cannot continue to pour sand down a rat hole.
AOC deserved everything she got. Are you defending that hypocrite shrew?
Why not just start it before January 3rd?...
The American people need to decide if we really want WWIII or not. There isn’t anything between but we can sort of make it seem there is a choice.
Good news.
“This is good news.”
It’s not news. It’s a sleazy politician saying stuff for what purposes we don’t know.
Again McCarthy needs to keep his mouth shut. Everything he says will be twisted, especially now. He never said he was cutting Ukraine aid.
Power to the Putin ! /s
I trust McCarthy as far as I can throw Stacey Abrams.
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