Speaker Kevin McCarthy is reversing course on his plan to exclude Ukraine aid from a substantial military spending bill, as Republicans grapple with finding a path forward for government funding.
This about-face from the California Republican comes one day after he indicated to reporters that he would extract the approximately $300 million earmarked for Ukraine from the Pentagon bill and arrange a separate vote. McCarthy faced resistance from within the GOP regarding its inclusion.
However, in the Capitol on Saturday, McCarthy announced that the bill would proceed with the Ukraine aid intact, asserting that removing it would be too complicated due to the Republicans’ funding strategy, which involves presenting the Defense bill alongside other measures. This decision introduces fresh uncertainty regarding whether the Pentagon spending bill will even be considered for debate after two recent failures.
“It became too difficult to do that, so we’re leaving it in,” McCarthy explained to reporters in reference to the Ukraine funds.
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NOTHING IS EVER GOING TO CHANGE IN THE rEPUBLICAN PARTY UNTIL THEY GROW a backbone stop being concerned about their public image and the next election and do the job they were elected to do, Democrats have no desire and are not going to back down from their destruction of this nation and they know that the Republicans dont have the courage to stand up against them
HOW ABOUT MATT GAETZ, TED CRUZ, TED KENNEDY................
Absolutely, do it!
They can remove him by one vote. That was the deal to support him by those twenty good Reps.
They need to DO IT.
Send a message enough is enough... remove McCarthy as speaker and separate the 12 bills funding the government, eliminate all the Earmarks, defund most of the White House/Office of the President, the DOJ, the FBI, and the activist Federal Judiciary...
Then, send the 12 Appropriation Bills to the US Senate, one at a time... Let all the non-essential government agencies shut down until the Senate passes the House Versions of the Appropriation bills... Shut the government down until Congress passes a balanced budget... No more CRs. No more Earmarks or enriching the plutocracy with political spoils funded by taxpayers.
REPUBLICANS, Vacate the chair. McCarthy NEVER should have been rewarded the position of speaker of the house. He has always been a RINO!
If this is the way it is, how did he get turned so quickly?
It was made apparent from the git-go by Conservatives, he was on a trial basis as Speaker, and little patience would be extended.
The whole McCarthy action in leadership says,"kinda stupid" as it looks now.
McCarthy has never been ours. He is theirs and always has been.
HE MUST RESIGN AND BE REPLACED WITH SOMEONE WHO IS HONEST AND STRONG!
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