{"id":591931,"date":"2023-09-20T17:05:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T14:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/paul-will-hold-up-any-spending-stopgap-that-includes-ukraine-funding\/"},"modified":"2023-09-20T17:05:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T14:05:26","slug":"paul-will-hold-up-any-spending-stopgap-that-includes-ukraine-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/paul-will-hold-up-any-spending-stopgap-that-includes-ukraine-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"#Paul will hold up any spending stopgap that includes Ukraine funding\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/paulrand_090723gn03_w.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Conservative Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) announced Wednesday he will hold up any funding bill to keep the government open past Sept. 30 if it includes funding for the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday I\u2019m putting congressional leadership &amp; @POTUS on notice that I will oppose any effort to hold the federal government hostage for Ukraine funding. I will not consent to expedited passage of any spending measure that provides any more U.S. aid to Ukraine,\u201d Paul <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandPaul\/status\/1704485590085812595\">wrote on X<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> platform formerly known as Twitter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>That means if Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) wants to add Ukraine money to a stopgap measure to fund federal departments and agencies, he would have to go through the time-consuming process of filing cloture and scheduling a vote to end debate on the bill, which would take a few days. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The country risks a shutdown if Congress doesn\u2019t pass what\u2019s known as a continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government open past Sept. 30.<\/p>\n<p>The problem Schumer faces is that Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) hasn\u2019t been able to muster up enough votes in the House to pass a CR and send it to the Senate. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The impasse in the House, is holding up action in the Senate, giving Paul leverage to threaten Ukraine funding. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>President Biden has requested $24 billion in security and humanitarian aid for Ukraine. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Senators are scheduled to receive a classified briefing on Ukraine at 5 p.m. Wednesday ahead of a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky scheduled for 10 a.m. Thursday in the Old Senate Chamber. \u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Schumer on Tuesday declined to say whether he would add Ukraine funding and disaster assistance to the continuing resolution but observed the package would need support from Democrats and Republicans. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019d like to work on a bipartisan basis on the CR with the Republicans. We\u2019ve gotten indications that they want to do that. We\u2019ve done it very successfully on the <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 process and hopefully we can come together bipartisan here as well,\u201d he said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Schumer criticized House Republicans on Tuesday for reaching a deal on a continuing resolution that didn\u2019t include Ukraine or disaster relief money.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Democratic leader could attempt to pass the continuing resolution through the Senate first by using a legislative vehicle passed earlier this year in the House but he hasn\u2019t made a decision on that yet. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur first job is to get the House to pass something. We\u2019ll see if they can but we need a bipartisan bill in each body,\u201d he said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Rand Paul (R-Ky.) announced Wednesday he will hold up any funding bill to keep the government open past Sept. 30 if it includes funding for the war in Ukraine. \u201cToday I\u2019m putting congressional leadership &amp; @POTUS on notice that I will oppose any effort to hold the federal government hostage for Ukraine funding&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":591932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/paulrand_090723gn03_w.jpg?w=1280","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[134344,117,71313,10574,70610,124783,991,35813,34149,87647,70289,70588,100713],"class_list":["post-591931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-administration","tag-business","tag-chuck-schumer","tag-education","tag-finance","tag-international","tag-joe-biden","tag-kevin-mccarthy","tag-latino","tag-rand-paul","tag-senate","tag-video","tag-volodymyr-zelensky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}