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Author: Lapsody   😊 😞
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Subject: Ukrain Aid
Date: 01/20/24 11:05 PM
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Are we screwed? Will we get aid to Ukraine out the door? Will the RW succeed in drying up all aid to Ukraine?

<snip>On Sunday, in a leaked call with GOP members, Johnson went further, saying he wouldn’t accept any Senate deal and that he doesn’t think the border issue can be solved until a Republican becomes president.

GOP supporters of Ukraine aid, who rightly warn that letting it run out would be a disaster, are increasingly concerned that the MAGA right-wingers will succeed in halting the vital military assistance.

“The speaker is going to have to make a hard decision about what to do,” House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Tex.), told me. “If we abandon our NATO allies and surrender to [Vladimir] Putin in Ukraine, it’s not going to make the world safer, it’s going to make the world more dangerous. … [Ronald] Reagan would never have surrendered to the Soviet Union. Maybe that’s a shift in our party.”

McCaul said Johnson might chop up the Senate proposal and send it back in pieces, or he might send over an entirely different House bill. Either way, the effect will be that any Senate-struck agreement won’t reach the president’s desk intact or anytime soon. Several Hill aides said the earliest a supplemental funding bill could realistically be completed is early March. By then, GOP support for passing anything related to immigration or Ukraine will have eroded even further under Trump’s relentless barrage.<snip>

It looks like there's some heavy anti-democratic sentiment out there. I've read the one consistent theme in conservatism is that certain people were better at ruling us and we should let them rule -err- govern us.

washingtonpost.com - Ukraine aid cut likely johnson house republicans

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