Posted on 04/11/2024 10:14:32 PM PDT by RandFan
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) is stepping up his pressure on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to put the Senate-passed foreign aid bill up for a vote in the House, warning Wednesday that “starving” Ukraine of military support is “strategic and moral malpractice.”
McConnell told a radio host in Louisville recently that despite plans to retire from Senate leadership, he intends to stay in the Senate through the end of his term in 2027 in order to fight back “against the isolationist movement in my own party.”
On Wednesday, he did that by taking shots at President Biden for not providing military support to Ukraine more quickly and at members of the Republican Party who are now holding up $60 billion in aid for Ukraine.
“Starving Ukraine of needed capabilities wasn’t a smart way for the Biden administration to avoid escalation, and neither is it a political master stroke by some of the administration’s Republican opponents. It is strategic and moral malpractice. It risks condemning Ukraine and undermining our own national interest,” McConnell said on the Senate floor.
McConnell has repeatedly called on Johnson to bring the Senate-passed $95 billion aid package up for a vote. The Senate passed the bill Feb. 13, almost two months ago.
The Senate bill also includes military aid for Israel and security assistance to the Indo-Pacific to deter growing Chinese aggression.
The Senate GOP leader recently warned that House Republican plans to turn aid for Ukraine into a loan program or to authorize the seizure of Russian assets to pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine could delay the aid package for weeks longer.
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bttt
Why do you want to piss away so much of our money on a lost cause, Mitch? I’m so sick of the establishment GOP I could puke.
To the last Ukrainian, inbred NeoCons and their agents (like Mitch) say. They are just Slavs. Not needed.
Like mini-Mitch John Thune?
Ukraine as a failed state died in 2014. The only question is how many Ukrainians will survive US/EU/NATO “aid”.
Given that they will now draft all 18-60 year old males, the answer is, not many.
Immorality, thy name is McConnell.
Uniparty gonna uniparty
Mitch, your corrupt deals with Ukraine are not a security issue for the rest of us.
How is he any different than the corrupt joe biden
Simple, Russia pulls out of Ukraine, martial law is removed, and elections happen
I too feel sorry for Ukraine, the idea that 60 billion spread out over years can’t be accomplished is just plain false
As in much of past aid, much of tue “costs” are not really costs. Surplus equipment, and expired or expiring munitions are not new expenditures.
As to size of Russia and it’s inevitable victory, by that reasoning the war should have been over two years ago.
What does he propose cutting and diverting to Ukraine? We are $34trillion in debt.
Failure to pass USA border security is an even bigger “strategic and moral malpractice” but I don’t see Cocaine Mitch give a shit about the destruction of America.
How the hell can any true American put more precedence on a filthy corrupt Ukraine than the USA?
It just shows you were their priorities are. /spit
Screw McConnell. not another dime.
Comments BUMP!
It appears we can’t walk (have an intact border) and chew gum (support Ukraine) at the same time, so we’ve chosen to be a gum-chewing paraplegic.
McConnell told a radio host in Louisville recently that despite plans to retire from Senate leadership, he intends to stay in the Senate through the end of his term in 2027 in order to fight back “against the isolationist movement in my own party.”
We will all be better off if this treacherous POS is pushing up daisies well before 2027.
Yep
Zelensky used the same election cheat as Obiden.
He’s not the real leader, and has decimated his people to hide his crimes.
The Old Crow must have a lot of money riding on another huge transfer of money from the American taxpayers to the Zelensky gang and the big defense contractors.
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