{"id":589021,"date":"2023-08-29T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/house-senate-gop-set-for-internal-fight-over-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2023-08-29T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T10:00:00","slug":"house-senate-gop-set-for-internal-fight-over-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/house-senate-gop-set-for-internal-fight-over-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"#House, Senate GOP set for internal fight over Ukraine\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/08\/ukraine-military_082023ap_ukraine-funding.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Senate and House Republicans are girding themselves for an internal battle over President Biden\u2019s request for another $24 billion to continue funding the war and humanitarian assistance in Ukraine. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The GOP\u2019s divisions over the war were on full display at last week\u2019s presidential debate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Republicans with traditional national security views \u2014 former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, former Vice President Mike Pence and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie \u2014 battled with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy, who espoused an America-first view that is gaining traction among Trump-aligned Republicans \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Polls show a majority of Republicans are skeptical of providing more aide to Ukraine, but Senate Republican sources say they expect a majority of Senate and House Republicans to ultimately support another Ukraine package \u2014 though it will encounter opposition from conservatives in both chambers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A nationwide poll of 1,279 adults conducted for CNN by SSRS, an independent research company, in July found that 55 percent of Americans and 71 percent of Republicans oppose Congress authorizing additional funding to support Ukraine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Seventy House Republicans voted last month for an amendment sponsored by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) to cut off all security assistance to Ukraine. It failed by a vote of 70-358. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The vote, however, showed that Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) will have to rely on Democrats to pass any bill to keep weapons and economic aid flowing to Ukraine. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And McCarthy is certain to come under pressure from conservatives in his conference to demand spending concessions to offset the cost of a Ukraine supplemental spending bill after he declared in June that more money from Ukraine above the budget caps he and President Biden set for 2024 is \u201cnot going anywhere.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) said last week that a threat to McCarthy\u2019s Speakership is \u201cinevitable\u201d if he ignores conservatives\u2019 demands for spending cuts and other reforms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we continue to rely on the Democrats to pass important legislation out of the House, it\u2019s going to be a real problem for leadership,\u201d he warned on Steve Bannon\u2019s \u201cWar Room.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Biden this month asked lawmakers to provide $40 billion altogether in emergency spending to fund the war in Ukraine and provide federal disaster funds to repair damage caused by fires and storms, and to increase security at the Southern border. \u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Senate Republican aides say the timing of the package is highly uncertain given the opposition from House conservatives and questions about whether McCarthy will try to rely on Democrats to pass the emergency bill.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Senate would have to go first on something like this because McCarthy\u2019s in a really tough spot. He can\u2019t put forth a Ukraine funding resolution with Democrat votes or he\u2019s putting his Speakership in grave danger, because in the House Republican caucus there\u2019s not as much support for un-offset Ukraine spending as there is in the Senate,\u201d said Brian Darling, a GOP strategist and former Senate aide. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The divisions within the Republican Party over sending billions of more military and humanitarian assistance were laid bare at the Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee, where Ramaswamy called continued U.S. support for the war \u201cdisastrous,\u201d and DeSantis argued that additional military and economic aid \u201cshould be contingent\u201d on European allies spending more on the effort. \u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Those same divisions exist among Republican senators and House members.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVivek Ramaswamy was saying what most Republicans think. His view that there needs to a check on Ukraine funding, it can\u2019t be a blank check. I think most Republicans agree with him on that,\u201d Darling said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Capitol Hill there are deep divisions in the caucus on how to treat the Ukraine funding measure,\u201d he added. \u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Ramaswamy argued the same military resources should be used to stop the \u201cinvasion\u201d of migrants across the Southern border and declared \u201cwe are driving Russia further into China\u2019s hands.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Attaching Ukraine funding and emergency disaster assistance to a stopgap government funding measure that needs to pass by Sept. 30 is an option, but members of the House Freedom Caucus signaled last week that would face a tough fight in the lower chamber. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe supplemental could maybe hitch a ride on the [continuing resolution], and it\u2019s something that\u2019s very dicey. The reason why it\u2019s dicey is [it] divides both parties,\u201d said James Wallner, a former senior Senate Republican aide, who also noted that Democratic progressives are also leery about the nation\u2019s open-ended commitment to the war. \u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>House conservatives say they will oppose any continuing resolution to fund the government that \u201ccontinues Democrats\u2019 bloated COVID-era spending\u201d and called on congressional leaders to lower the top-line defense and nondefense number to $1.471 trillion \u2014 below the total spending cap Biden and McCarthy agreed to for fiscal 2024. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They also pledged to \u201coppose any blank check for Ukraine in any supplemental <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ropriations bill.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This raises the prospect that McCarthy will be pressured to insist that any new money for Ukraine fit under the discretionary spending caps he agreed to in May, a departure from the traditional practice of not counting emergency spending against annual budget caps. \u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Senate Democrats and many Senate Republicans, however, have no interest in cutting defense and nondefense programs beyond what the Senate and House agreed to when it voted to raise the debt limit in June. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), the chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, for example, says she considers the negotiations over attaching stricter work requirements to federal food assistance settled by the debt limit deal and closed for further discussion this year. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Defense hawks in the Senate Republican conference demanded that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) pledge on the Senate floor in June that the defense spending cap in the debt limit deal wouldn\u2019t prevent the Senate from passing supplemental spending legislation to provide more money to the Defense Department or respond to a national emergency. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), one of the strongest Republican proponents of supporting the war in Ukraine, pointed out at an event in Kentucky earlier this month that \u201cmost of the money that we spend related to Ukraine is actually spent in the U.S., replenishing weapons, more modern weapons.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Senate Republican aide predicted that ultimately there will be enough Republican support in both chambers to pass another major bill to support Ukraine and cited the strong arguments Haley, Pence and Christie made in favor of stopping Russian aggression before it reaches European allies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of the candidates fought back against the idea of not supporting Ukraine. Differences remain, but I think most Republicans support the idea of helping the Ukrainians,\u201d the source said. <\/p>\n<p>Haley, Pence and Christie warned of serious national security consequences if the United States walks away from the conflict in Ukraine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVivek, if we do the giveaway that you want to give Putin to give him his land, it\u2019s not going to be too long before he rolls across a NATO border,\u201d Pence sternly warned his rival. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrankly, our men and women of our armed forces are going to have to go and fight him. I want to let the Ukrainians fight and drive the Russians out,\u201d he declared. \u00a0\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. All rights reserved. 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