Posted on 10/09/2023 1:40:41 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
The confirmed and possible candidates for speaker of the House have had differing voting records on U.S. aid to Ukraine, which could possibly jeopardize Kyiv’s chances of receiving funding in the future.
Former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy was ousted from his position on Tuesday in a 216-210 House vote, an effort spearheaded by Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz who filed a motion to vacate the chair on Monday. A new speaker will be decided on Wednesday, and whoever is elected will have influence over whether future Ukraine aid will be included in the next spending bill before the current continuing resolution ends on Nov. 17.
The continuing resolution did not contain any funding for Ukraine, despite the Biden administration’s initial request to include $24 billion. Future aid to Ukraine has become a point of contention in both the House and the Senate and will be a major issue in the next spending bill, which must be passed by Nov. 17, is considered.
As of now, the confirmed candidates for the speaker position are Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan and Republican Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise, and potential candidates include Republican Oklahoma Rep. Kevin Hern and Republican North Carolina Rep. Patrick McHenry.
Jordan currently chairs the House Judiciary Committee and confirmed his candidacy for speaker on Wednesday. He has already garnered the support of high-profile conservative figures, including former President Donald Trump and a number of his Republican colleagues.
“He will be a GREAT Speaker of the House, & has my Complete & Total Endorsement!” Trump posted on Truth Social Friday.
Jordan voted for the initial Ukraine Lend-Lease Act in May 2022, but has since voted against all bills and amendments for further funding, and rejected the notion of including aid in the stop-gap bill that was passed on Sept. 30, according to GOPforUkraine.org. Jordan’s office directed the Daily Caller News Foundation to an interview he did on Thursday, where he made it clear that he will reject all future aid, at least until Ukraine gives an explanation as to how the funds are being used and how it plans to end the war.
“I’ve been clear all along. Why should we be sending American tax dollars to Ukraine?” Jordan said during an interview with Fox News on Thursday. “We don’t even know what the goal is. No one can tell me what the objective is.”
“And then second, how is the money that’s already been sent [been spent]?” Jordan said. “Those are two fundamental questions that I think the American taxpayers want to know the answers to before they send any more of their hard-earned money.”
Scalise, currently the house majority leader, announced his candidacy for speaker on Wednesday and has the support of GOP lawmakers like Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales and Georgia Rep. Drew Ferguson. Scalise was diagnosed with blood cancer in August, which has limited his ability to be present at recent House proceedings.
“I think the world of Steve Scalise. I think he would make a phenomenal speaker,” Gaetz previously told the DCNF.
While he hasn’t been historically vocal about his stance on Ukraine, Scalise has voted in support of every bill and amendment for Ukraine funding since the war began in February 2022, according to GOPforUkraine.org. Scalise previously called for additional oversight as to how Ukraine is spending the appropriated funds.
“Obviously, there’s concern that the money’s going to the places that it’s intended,” Scalise said in December 2022, according to Politico. “Having any taxpayer dollars that go anywhere, whether it’s domestically or abroad, deserves scrutiny.”
Hern, currently chairman of the Republican Study Committee, is considering a run for the speaker position but has yet to confirm his candidacy. Hern was previously nominated by his colleagues for the position in January but declined to run. (RELATED: McCarthy Addresses Media After Being Ousted As Speaker, Says He Will Not Run Again)
Like Jordan, Hern voted for the initial Ukraine Lend-Lease Act but subsequently voted against every amendment and bill with funding for Ukraine, according to GOPforUkraine.org. Hern has instead put a higher emphasis on securing the southern border and lowering the national debt.
“On yesterday’s vote to send more money to Ukraine, I voted no AGAIN,” Hern said on X in late September. “We need peace in Ukraine NOW! Not war!”
Also being considered for speaker is McHenry, who is currently serving as speaker pro tempore, fulfilling the duties of the office until a new speaker is elected. McHenry, a major ally to McCarthy, has voted in favor of every bill and amendment with funding for Ukraine since the country’s war with Russia began in February 2022, according to GOPforUkraine.org.
President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he was concerned that, depending on which candidate is elected as the new speaker, his foreign policy initiatives and future Ukraine aid plans could be put in jeopardy.
“It does worry me,” Biden said on Tuesday. “But I know there are a majority of members of the House and Senate in both parties who have said that they support funding Ukraine.”
“The dysfunction always concerns me,” Biden said. “There is a half a dozen or more extreme MAGA Republicans who would like to eliminate despite everything I’ve done.”
Scalise, Hern, McHenry and the White House did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.
The coverage of the attacks by Hamas against the Israeli people is extensive, but have you paused to notice a very peculiar dynamic?
As familiar to most news consumers, various media war correspondents are embedded throughout the Israel and Gaza region. Flak jackets and helmets are worn by CNN, BBC, Fox News and all the international agencies who are covering the Israeli War. All of that footage is common and familiar.
Television streams are lit up with the continuing coverage and the audience is brought in live to the fight, despite the dangers and the military combat that is taking place throughout the area. Brave war correspondents are doing what they do, showing the public exactly what is happening on the ground as the fighting continues.
Yet, the extensive footage triggers a reminder of something….
The war in Ukraine has been raging for 20 months, and not once, not even one single time, did we see simultaneous international war correspondents delivering their reporting, showing action on the front lines, donning their protective gear and taking the audience toward the battles in a similar fashion.
The contrast between the War in Israel and the “War” in Ukraine could not be starker when viewed through the prism of what a real combat war looks like.
Why is that?
You know the answer to that question.
You might not want to absorb the truth behind this stark reality, but the war in Ukraine is an intelligence war, a creation of the U.S. State Department, CIA, and allied intelligence networks.
All of the information coming from the Ukraine War doesn’t come complete with accompanying war correspondents to give context to the statements made by the military officials on the ground in Ukraine, because there isn’t any way to connect to something that just doesn’t exist.
The “War” in Ukraine is World War Reddit. A war carried out and advanced by the intelligence system that created it. As the night life and dance festivals in Kiev continue, it would be challenging for the international war correspondents, the actual media, to deliver broadcast ground reports from Ukraine without using green screens and fabricated livestreams.
That’s why we have never seen them.
The Ukraine War is an intelligence operation, and with it comes the need for high control over the propaganda to support it. It would be troublesome for those carrying out the Ukraine operation if people were brought into the “fight” by media. Worse still, it would be very challenging to retain support for an intelligence operation, if the American and global population realized it is propaganda.
We’ve seen more footage of the war inside Israel in 48 hours than we have seen inside Ukraine in two years.
Carry on….
Sorry Ukraine, all eyes are now on Israel and nobody is paying attention, Russia could drop a nuke on Kiev and not a single headline would be written
Plenty of video on Telegram, and it doesn’t look good for the Ukes.
One of the reasons I have been calling Ukraine an artificial war. CNN had on the ground coverage of Ukrainian brutality against Russians in the Donbas back in 2012. But now — nothing. Occasional few seconds of video footage of a blown up tank or a correspondent standing in front of a collapsed building somewhere. We had the phoney war in 1939-40, so maybe this one is a mere shadow of what they say it is.
“The war in Ukraine has been raging for 20 months, and not once, not even one single time, did we see simultaneous international war correspondents delivering their reporting, showing action on the front lines, donning their protective gear and taking the audience toward the battles in a similar fashion.”
Willfully blind is not a way to go through life.
At the outset, we saw the same graphic stuff, plus the live streams, anything and everything or else Ukraine doesn’t get billions of dollars.
It took a long time of daddy’s open checkbook before more than two people started balking.
I’m good with nothing getting done. Can’t screw it up more if they aren’t working.
There can be no option but Jordan.
Mossad's ability to gather intelligence from around the world is 2nd to none. How is it that the Mossad did not see this attack coming? The answer, "they were caught off guard" or "they lacked accurate intelligence" - just doesn't seem to be probable.
Thoughts?
Questions like yours make the neocon dullards’ heads hurt.
We don't have $15b for the wall, but we do have $115b for Ukraine.
The war in Ukraine was caused the same expansionist tendencies that have characterized Russian history for centuries. Russian nationalists want a bigger, more powerful Russia. These impulses caused Russia in invade the Crimea in 2014.
Vampiress Nuland and murderess ValarieJarett wrecking hell,
what’s not to see?
-fJRoberts-
The high price of oil enabled both invasions and is the proximate cause.
Russia could drop a nuke on Kiev and not a single headline would be written
= = =
Well, maybe:
“Russia nukes Kiev. Wastes chance to bomb Iran.”
I still find all of this crap about Gaetz(who I think did the right thing), McCarthy and House Republicans completely idiotic and a testament to just how lazy the average person is.
How many have listened to any of Gaetz’s interviews or statements to the press? It would appear, not too many.
At the end of the day, for me, it comes down to something really simple.
From the research I did, the US government hasn’t had an actual budget since 2007. Gaetz says it was the mid-90s, but I don’t know about that. But, 2007 was a year that Bush needed money for the GWOT and the Dem’s didn’t want to give it to him. The CR was born. Then they get smart and figured out that by waiting until the last minute, everyone could get everything they wanted...money for the war, money for museums, money for park bathrooms, money for whatever...since no one was looking at what was in the bills.
Pelosi....we have to pass it to see what’s in it.
If I’m not mistaken, budget bills require a simple majority. Right?
McCarthy had from the day he was elected Speaker till the day he was kicked out to come up with a budget. He chose no to. He was all about maintaining the status quo. CRs and Omnibus’
All the Republicans had to do was, without any input from the Democrats, come up with an actual budget. A fiscally sound and responsible budget. One that might have even included some legitimate cuts in spending, not just a cut in the rate of increase. Maybe, if they were really good, one that was balanced.
Something like that would have backed the Senate and House Democrats into a corner. It would have backed Biden into a corner.
But...............NOPE. Couldn’t do something like that, could they.
McCarthy and House Republican’s could have been heroes. Instead McCarthy chose to look like the corrupt fool he is.
And now, because of all the corruption, we’re being forced to judge someone on how they look at Ukraine funding?
How about the over 5 million fighting age males, illegally in our country. At any time, if they want to, their violence would make what happened in Israel look like a game of tag.
How about inflation?
How about an actual budget? Pretty much the one thing they are in DC for.
Our State Dept is a RATS NEST of TRAITORS and PURE EVIL PEOPLE!
Both DeSantis and Trump support Jordan, the house should wrap up tomorrow with him as speaker and move on to a Declaration of War against Hamas.
“Mossad’s ability to gather intelligence from around the world is 2nd to none. How is it that the Mossad did not see this attack coming? The answer, “they were caught off guard” or “they lacked accurate intelligence” - just doesn’t seem to be probable.”
I have lots of thoughts, none of them I really want to entertain because I don’t want to believe that the Israeli leadership allowed this false flag which will allow them to take over Gaza.
I also do not want to see US get involved with Iran or Syria
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