Posted on 10/21/2022 8:54:43 AM PDT by RandFan
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) are headed for a collision next year on spending more money to help Ukraine.
McConnell has led Republican support for sending generous military and financial aid to Kyiv, warning that Russian President Vladimir Putin could threaten Poland and other European allies if not stopped in Ukraine.
McCarthy, who would likely become Speaker if Republicans win control of the House, is putting the brakes on more Ukraine aid, warning this week there won’t be a “blank check” from a GOP majority.
McConnell took an unannounced trip to Ukraine in May to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. He said he hoped “not many members of my party will choose to politicize this issue,” also highlighting that House Republicans voted for a $40 billion Ukraine package that month.
But House Republican support for the war in Ukraine is eroding as the conflict drags on, and experts predict the United States could be headed into a recession next year, which could diminish support for sending tens of billions of dollars in additional aid to Ukraine.
It’s the first significant policy difference between McCarthy and McConnell that will come into the spotlight after Election Day. Congress will reconvene next month to wrap up the unfinished business of the 117th Congress.
Congress last month approved $12.3 billion in military and economic aid for Ukraine as part of a stopgap spending measure. McConnell voted for it and McCarthy voted “no,”
“I would imagine that there would be significant tension because McConnell certainly is not going to shy away from continuing to support Ukraine,” said a Senate Republican aide.
“One way to solve this is to put a huge slug of money in [the omnibus spending package] in December,” the aide added.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
spending bills originate in the house....McConnell loses
Let the Republicans keep doing what they have in regards to Ukraine and a continuous open money spigot policy, and there will be Hell to pay.
Gotta love the Hill. The Republicans aren’t even in charge yet and the Hill is already ginning up “Republicans in conflict” and “Republican chaos” stories.
fixed.
If I had my way the hill articles wouldn’t be allowed here
Which one of the "Legislative powers herein granted" in Article I pertains to "helping Ukraine"?
Let us wash our hands off this mess and let Mother Russia take its former lands from the Ukraine.
I honestly can’t see Republicans being against giving money to the Ukraine (and by extension war profiteers) .
I’d like to see it, but I doubt it will happen.
That’s what amendments are for
I don’t like what Russia is doing to the Ukraine but we is broke.
No mas . No mas
Hopefully, they will at least reduce the “Big Guys” cut.
You would make a great Congressman Jim.
Do you like Massie/Paul (Ron or Rand)?
Theoretically, yes. Then there is ObamaCare.
No I don’t like them.
I was a libertarian for a long time. No more, though.
If society were made up exclusively of youngish white men with IQs above 110 and also a bit on the spectrum, it would be a perfect system of government.
But - get out more and have a look around.
McCarthy seems to get more squishy the closer we get to the mid-terms. He is already providing cover to Dems, should the Pubbies get the House and he gets the speakership.
‘We won’t impeach’
‘We won’t retaliate’
‘We won’t be mean’
‘We just wanna get along’
We have a pantload of Freeper bots who love Biden and his sicko Ukey’s.
After the mid-terms, they can meet at a local Mcdonald’s and settle their differences...
Neither one will be in charge of anything, ever again...
That is, of course, if the guppies actually are serious about trying to resurrect the nation...
It would be SHOCKING if the guppies did something useful this time...
Their history of f...ing up a majority is unblemished since the 1990s...
Get rid of McConnell.
House will need a very large majority though because I can guarantee you some leftists RINOs and warhawks will vote for more $$$ to Ukraine. and the democrats will vote for it as well.
He’s a jelly fish and marine biologists certainly know
that a jelly fish never becomes a spiny fish.
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