Do you know why Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell can do this? Because the Kentucky voters won’t kick him out.
Ridiculous.
Speaker Mike Johnson already said the Ukraine foreign aid bill is dead on arrival.
Old Man McConnell is trying to push around Johnson to bring the bill to the floor, vote on it, and pass it.
I love how Politico described it as a soft push. No such thing for these politicians:
After nearly winning half his conference in support of a $95 billion foreign aid bill, the Senate minority leader is calling for Ukraine-skeptical Speaker Mike Johnson to allow a vote on sending billions in aid to Kiev. In an interview on Tuesday afternoon, he called on Johnson to bring the issue to the House floor — though McConnell said he would not be “so presumptuous as to tell him how to do it.”The soft push is an acknowledgment of the reality both GOP leaders face. While Johnson confronts more immediate threats to his speakership, McConnell has his own battle scars. That includes his campaign last fall for a clean funding bill, his embrace of linking foreign aid to border security as his party leaned in that direction, then watching 22 Republican senators support a border-free national security spending package on Tuesday — blowing four months just to end up right back where the Senate started.
We have no money. The money we do have should be spent on our southern and northern border.
Sorry, Ukraine and Israel. We do not have any spare change because politicians have screwed up America for decades. People like McConnell.
Listen to McConnell. I just cannot with this guy:
“I’ve been with the minority of my members on raising the debt ceiling, on funding the government. There are just some issues that come along that are so important: You have to do the best you can,” McConnell explained in the interview. “No question I have a group that’s not fans of my work — and also, they just don’t like the idea of helping Ukraine. So the two got merged together.”—“I have my complaints with how the Biden administration handled it, but at least they’re in favor of supporting Ukraine’s fight for independence. And goodness, what is wrong with a situation in which we’re not losing any of our personnel?” McConnell said on Tuesday. “The Europeans are stepping up. They just sent $55 billion to Ukraine.”
I see, though, that the Republicans aren’t going to stop their “no foreign aid without border security” whining instead of insisting these bills stay separate.
Instead, demand a separate border security bill first and then a separate foreign aid bill for each country: Ukraine, Israel, and even Taiwan.
I hope Johnson sticks to his guns. A source said Johnson does not even “intend to put the package up for a vote in the House, at least ‘not in its current form.'”
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