McCarthy signals GOP-led House likely to oppose more aid to Ukraine

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is signaling that if Republicans win the House majority in next month’s midterm elections, the GOP is likely to oppose more aid to Ukraine in its war with Russia.

Since the invasion in February the majority of congressional Republicans and Democrats have united in authorizing billions of dollars in U.S. military and humanitarian assistance to Kyiv as a geopolitical and moral stand against Vladimir Putin’s aggression.

McCarthy, who could be House speaker if Republicans triumph, indicated that that could end in a GOP-led House.

“I think people are gonna be sitting in a recession and they’re not going to write a blank check to Ukraine,” he recently told Punchbowl News. “They just won’t do it.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/18/house-republicans-ukraine-mccarthy/

[Salviati]

1. The only check he's interested in...

... is the one he and the other republicans are going to be recieving courtesy of putin...

[Ocelot II]

2. Just what Putin wants.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. If the GOP gains control of the House, Putin wins and Ukraine loses

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[tanyev]

4. Never forget that the ONLY change the Trump campaign wanted in the 2016 Republican platform

was their statement of support for Ukraine.

Trump campaign guts GOP’s anti-Russia stance on Ukraine


By Josh Rogin July 18, 2016


The Trump campaign worked behind the scenes last week to make sure the new Republican platform won’t call for giving weapons to Ukraine to fight Russian and rebel forces, contradicting the view of almost all Republican foreign policy leaders in Washington.

Throughout the campaign, Trump has been dismissive of calls for supporting the Ukraine government as it fights an ongoing Russian-led intervention. Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, worked as a lobbyist for the Russian-backed former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych for more than a decade.

Still, Republican delegates at last week’s national security committee platform meeting in Cleveland were surprised when the Trump campaign orchestrated a set of events to make sure that the GOP would not pledge to give Ukraine the weapons it has been asking for from the United States.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/trump-campaign-guts-gops-anti-russia-stance-on-ukraine/2016/07/18/98adb3b0-4cf3-11e6-a7d8-13d06b37f256_story.html

[Mad_Machine76]

7. And remember

that Paul Manafort was on his campaign (and is once again a free man)

[Arminio]

5. Not all Republican house members would vote against aid

I think there would still be enough votes for aid.

[Ladythatvotesblue]

6. McCarthy

is a stupid man that's why he says stupid things. Easily lead or mislead. Certainly not the sharpest tool in the shed. ...And he is a tool!
Why would he stop aid to Ukraine....because he is stupid.
Putin will come for them too.
Greedy for power at all costs. I hope this guy gets voted out of office.

[keithbvadu2]

8. New republican meme of Trump's regime::: Russia is our friend

Used to be::: Better dead than Red.

[samsingh]

9. a gop led house will destroy social security, the economy, the climate and support putin