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.
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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.
She told him in front of an audience that she would “fuck him up” six months ago.
Imagine being terrified of Mammy Traitor Green.
Well have you seen her? Pretty sure we have an Encino Man situation going on there. She is probably freakishly strong from having to battle sabretooth tigers and dinosaurs before getting stuck in a tar pit.
For a second I actually thought the thumbnail picture was Dog the Bounty Hunter.
Bruh 😂
Those shoes are mine, Betch!
Hmm, am I missing a reference here? 😅
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?
Green is a scab on our country
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More like the crusty pus that oozes outbid the cracks of an infected scab.
Good job McFucksy, waste more of the Americans tax dollars doing dumb shit. Flesh waster.
Fucking weasel.
She is like a Karen’s final form.
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.
If we’re talking gov funding bills they should all be passed a year in advance. This constant edging shit is a result of the news cycle.
exactly. In an ideal world, each item should be it’s own thing, discussed on it’s own merits, without any risk of that thing getting defunded because of political wankery. they certainly shouldn’t be lumping in a watering down of federal authority to control immigration rules, for example.
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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