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11 Republican Senators Vote Against $40 Billion In Security Assistance For Ukraine
Igor Bobic
Mon, May 16, 2022, 6:22 PM·4 min read
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11 Republican Senators Vote Against $40 Billion In Security Assistance For Ukraine
Igor Bobic
Mon, May 16, 2022, 6:22 PM·4 min read
Eleven Republican senators bucked their leadership and voted against a motion advancing a $40 billion security assistance package for Ukraine on Monday, a sign of growing GOP opposition to U.S. efforts aimed at countering Russian President Vladimir Putins bloody three-month-old invasion there.
The security package isnt expected to pass until later this week because a single Republican senator, Rand Paul of Kentucky, is objecting to a quick vote on the measure.
Paul has demanded the legislation give an inspector general authority to oversee spending, which he called unprecedented and fiscally unsound. But Democrats said that would require a re-vote in the House and burn precious time given Russias daily bombing of Ukrainian cities that is causing horrifying scenes of death and devastation.
In his floor speech earlier Monday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) slammed Pauls efforts to delay passage of the bill as totally unacceptable, saying that it only serves to strengthen Putins hand in the long run.
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11 Republican Senators Vote Against $40 Billion In Security Assistance For Ukraine (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
May 2022
OP
Thanks. This should have been in the first paragraph, but newspapers don't do that anymore.
Midnight Writer
May 2022
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CurtEastPoint
(18,667 posts)1. the article left out a couple!
Here are the 11 shameful assholes:
The Republican senators opposed to the plan were Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.), John Boozman (Ark.), Mike Braun (Ind.), Mike Crapo (Idaho), Bill Hagerty (Tenn.), Josh Hawley (Mo.), Mike Lee (Utah), Cynthia Lummis (Wyo.), Roger Marshall (Kan.), Rand Paul (Ky.) and Tommy Tuberville (Ala.).
Midnight Writer
(21,815 posts)2. Thanks. This should have been in the first paragraph, but newspapers don't do that anymore.
CurtEastPoint
(18,667 posts)3. no kidding: wwwwwh
Stuart G
(38,449 posts)4. K and R .....Thanks for posting the names of the senators.