The House bill gives them a pay raise for CoLA, and doesn’t include support for Ukraine. They’d promised earlier this year that every bill would have 72 hours to be read and reviewed; they introduced this one and called for a vote minutes later. Fuck the Republicans.
I fear this is going to be a turning point for the party to turn fully against Ukraine. McConnell apparently argued forcefully in favor of keeping the funding intact, but got overruled by most of the caucus, including Thune (one of the top candidates to replace him). And this is the Senate Republicans we’re talking about, the House caucus is even more openly antagonistic.
Keeping Democratic control of the White House and Congress next year could be key to Ukraine defeating Russia.
From 2018;
Seven senators — John Kennedy (R-LA), Richard Shelby (R-AL), Steve Daines (R-MT), John Hoeven (R-ND), John Thune (R-SD), Jerry Moran (R-KS), and Ron Johnson (R-WI) — and one House member, Kay Granger (R-TX), are all in Moscow over the Fourth of July holiday this week for talks with Russian lawmakers and officials, according to reporting from the Washington Post, NPR, and investigative reporter Julia Davis.
A month later, you had Rand Paul in Russia on Trump’s orders.
Then they’ll just increase the overal Pentagon budget and use some of those funds for Ukraine support.
We give money to Ukraine, and they use that money to buy weapons from us
Example: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-aid-ukraine-60-minutes-transcript/
”Federal agencies had already drawn up detailed plans that spell out what services would continue, like airport screening and border patrols, and what must shut down, like scientific research and nutrition aid to 7 million poor mothers.”
Thank goodness they had their priorities straight. Those poor mothers can fuckin’ starve as long as we can continue our useless airport screenings.
/s
You don’t understand clearly.
White business owners need those planes to make their sales calls. The money generated by those sales trickles down to…
*checks notes*
Other white business owners?
I love your energy and old white business owners suck but if you think it’s only rich white assholes vs rich assholes I’ve got a sane place in Florida to sell you.
The current Repugnican Party will be the death of the US yet.
“I want to be the adult in the room, go ahead and try,” McCarthy told reporters. “And you know what? If I have to risk my job for standing up for the American public, I will do that.”
Translation: “My donors told me that I wouldn’t get any more support if I wrecked their stock prices, so I have to walk back my extremist threats so I can still rake in money for re-election as a rep.”
