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Democrats Are Rushing Through A Massive Ukraine Defense Bill
The House of Representatives is looking to skip markup and hold a floor vote as soon as next week.
Democrats Are Rushing Through a Massive Ukraine Defense Bill
Democrats in the House are planning to expedite a massive bill that would dramatically increase U.S. security assistance to Ukraine.
theintercept.com
DEMOCRATS IN THE House of Representatives are planning to expedite a massive bill that would dramatically increase U.S. security assistance to Ukraine and lay the groundwork for substantial new sanctions on Russia — hastening a war-friendly posture without opportunity for dissent as concerns over a military invasion abound.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told members on a caucus call Tuesday that she’s looking to skip marking up the bill and move it straight to the House floor, setting up the possibility of a vote as soon as early next week, two congressional sources told The Intercept. The sources spoke on the condition of anonymity because they’re not authorized to talk to the press. Pelosi’s office did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
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Republicans have offered their own measures. Earlier this month in the House, Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, the lead Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced the Guaranteeing Ukrainian Autonomy by Reinforcing its Defense Act, a companion bill to a measure sponsored by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair Jim Risch, R-Idaho. The bill would give Ukraine $450 million from the State Department’s FMF account and impose sanctions related to the Nord Stream 2 project immediately, without waiting for an escalation as in the Democrats’ bill.
McCaul’s office did not reply to a request for comment on whether he would support Meeks’s bill. The White House endorsed the legislation that Menendez released weeks ago.
Commentary:
Those who think Congress won’t fund a Ukrainian insurgency are whistling in the dark.
Meanwhile, our 46th president and his Democrat ideologues ignore the crisis at our own border.
Obviously, Democrats believe that the borders of the Ukraine are more sovereign than the borders of America.
More than 140,000 illegal aliens crossed into America for the month of January, that's more than the number of Russians amassing at the Ukraine border and these illegals didn't need tanks, or massive weapons of war to do it Biden and his crew have given them the green light.