It never ends , so many with their collective hands out for US taxpayer money !
Following Iran’s attack against Israel over the weekend, Senate Republicans are once again calling for the chamber to take up standalone bills that provide aid to our ally in the Middle East. Just as he’s done following the October 7 attack that Hamas perpetrated against Israel, Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) called for the Senate to pass such a bill. Considering that the legislation was already passed by the House early last November, the bill could have gone immediately to President Joe Biden’s desk if Senate Democrats would only allow it. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) also offered her own aid bill. Senate Democrats just unanimously voted to BLOCK the bipartisan, House-passed funding bill for Israel.
And the dummycrats are the ones with the no votes , what happened to the party of fiscal restraint ? Hasn’t the GOP seen the amount of taxpayer dollars wasted on wars ???
How much better would Americans be with all the aid money used here ???
They are getting nothing from the government. They have been left to fend for themselves. The creeks are full of poison. The water isn’t fit to drink…or shower with. But, it’s been swept under the rug and basically forgotten about.
On a good note… Ukraine get’s 60 billion $$$$… thank God! Too bad East Palestine Ohio doesn’t have a yellow and blue flag.
Once again , veterans , the border , law enforcement , election security , working stiffs , rising prices , and out of control inflation are ignored !!!
The US has already sent 113 billion in weapons ,equipment , and humanitarian assistance .
This is a grab all you can, while you can before the entire shithouse goes up in flames. In other words, this is by design in order put America on a fast track to bankrupting her as a means to distract the masses while our sovereignty is being given away to the W.H.O.
With the 166 BILLION we GAVE to Ukraine , AND the 113 billion in weapons ,equipment , and humanitarian assistance .we could have BUILT 10 border WALLS to stop illegals from entering our Southern border.
We could have fixed Flint’s water system 450 times over .
We could have given EVERY homeless Veteran 1.5 MILLION DOLLARS .
We could have given 90 MILLION DOLLARS to EVERY family impacted by Maui wildfires .We could get rid of highway tolls . We could add 1000 more border security personal and the latest high tech equipment . We can pay to deport the 50,000,000 freeloading illegals .
This week was Tax Week, and the Republicans seem to be determined to take your tax money and give it to foreigners. Now, sometimes that is in our interest. I think it’s in our interest in Israel and Taiwan. But why are we giving more money to Ukraine? I don’t have a problem giving some money to Ukraine, but I have a problem supporting a strategy that I don’t understand. What is the strategy here? Overall, Republicans are really a mess. They are not united, while the Democrats are. All the left needs to do is sit there and let Republicans tear themselves apart, and they are tearing themselves apart because Speaker Mike Johnson’s not doing what he promised to do.
The House on Friday morning made it that much easier to pass Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) foreign aid bills, with a vote to actually pass the bills expected for Saturday. Ahead of such a vote, though, the House voted 316-94 on a rule change so that the bills could pass with only a majority support.
Tellingly, more Republicans voted against the rule change than supported it. The rule change also had more support from Democrats than Republicans in the chamber that Republicans just barely control due to the amount of early resignations and last December’s expulsion of now former Rep. George Santos (R-NY), who was replaced by Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi.
Fox News’ Chad Pergram called the show of Democratic support “[e]xtraordinary,” also noting it was “a test vote not only on the aid package, but also to signal that some Dems would be willing to protect Johnson.”
The vote on the rule change from the full House comes after the House Rules Committee passed the rule change just hours before, also with bipartisan support. Reps. Chip Roy (R-TX) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) were among those adamantly opposed. This comes after the House Freedom Caucus (HFC) released an official statement on Thursday opposing the rule change, meaning that 80 percent of their members had to sign on.
Johnson may need that support from Democrats in order for him to not just see bills passed, but for him to hold onto his gavel. It certainly looks possible, and not only given how 165 Democrats voted in favor of the rule change on Friday. Last month, when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) filed her motion to vacate the chair, there were House Democrats who quickly communicated their support for Johnson. The month before that, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) had also suggested his members would help Johnson remain as speaker if he brought Ukrainian aid for a vote. He did not grant the same assistance to former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) when he was ousted last October…
Extraordinary that the minority party would provide so many votes for a rule. Have not seen that. This was a test vote not only on the aid package, but also to signal that some Dems would be willing to protect Johnson.
