{"id":593066,"date":"2023-10-03T17:17:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T14:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/senators-fume-after-mccarthy-jams-them-on-ukraine-aid\/"},"modified":"2023-10-03T17:17:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T14:17:40","slug":"senators-fume-after-mccarthy-jams-them-on-ukraine-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/senators-fume-after-mccarthy-jams-them-on-ukraine-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"#Senators fume after McCarthy jams them on Ukraine aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/mccarthykevin_100323gn03_w.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Lawmakers who back U.S. aid to Ukraine are fuming over a serious weekend setback that they say leaves President Biden facing an uphill battle to win more money amid deepening political divisions over Kyiv, particularly in the House.<\/p>\n<p>Senators in both parties who back Ukraine went into last weekend thinking they could jam a Senate bill that prevented a shutdown and included $6 billion for Ukraine through the House, where Republicans in the majority had been unable to unify on a single plan to avert a shutdown.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>In the Senate, the bipartisan bill <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>eared likely to be passed, and its proponents believed there would be heavy pressure on the House GOP to accept it as the hours ticked down to a shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) pulled a Saturday morning surprise, announcing he would bring a clean stopgap measure to prevent a shutdown to the floor without Ukraine aid.<\/p>\n<p>He brought the bill up under the suspension of House rules, requiring a two-thirds majority and effectively daring Democrats, who had been decrying a possible shutdown, to oppose it over the lack of funding for Ukraine \u2014 which would have given the GOP an opening to argue Democrats were siding with that country over their own.<\/p>\n<p>It also had the effect of jamming the Senate \u2014 including GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and other Republicans in the Senate who backed Ukraine aid and had included it in their own stopgap measure.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, McConnell advised his caucus to vote against invoking cloture on the Senate bill to see what the House produced, and Democrats rallied around the McCarthy bill. While 90 House Republicans voted against it, only one House Democrat did \u2014 Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.), who blamed the lack of funding for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>It was a big victory for McCarthy, and one that is likely to just make it harder to win funding for Ukraine going forward.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>McCarthy and other Republicans are now demanding that new money for Ukraine be linked to policy changes to bolster security along the U.S.-Mexico border, a difficult topic where lawmakers for decades have struggled to compromise. Republicans specifically want to make it more difficult for migrants seeking asylum to remain in the United States. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tightening the nation\u2019s asylum laws is highly unpopular with Democrats, who would want some concessions on immigration \u2014 such as a path to citizenship for migrants who came to the country at a young age \u2014 in return. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The failure to include funding for Ukraine just a week after that country\u2019s president Volodymyr Zelensky made a dramatic <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> to Washington to ask for support has been closely observed on the other side of the Atlantic, where there are worries about the resolve of Kyiv\u2019s allies.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Britain\u2019s public <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> service, the BBC, on Sunday called the lack of funding for Ukraine a \u201cbudget fiasco.\u201d\u00a0Others said the Congress had handed a victory to Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>In the Senate, there was plenty of finger-pointing.<\/p>\n<p>Some Senate Republicans who support more funding for Ukraine argued Monday that House Democrats should have voted against McCarthy\u2019s clean measure. They say the Democrats undercut Biden by not insisting the measure include new money for Ukraine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Secretary State Antony Blinken told Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in the days before the Sept. 30 shutdown deadline that Ukraine urgently needed more money to continue fighting the war.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a reason why McConnell agreed to support a Senate-drafted stopgap measure that included $6 billion for Ukraine, even though initially he just wanted to grant the Pentagon expanded transfer authority to continue providing weapons to Ukraine, according to people familiar with the negotiations. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Senate Republicans who backed funding for the war don\u2019t think Biden did enough to communicate the urgency of the situation in Ukraine to members of Congress more broadly. \u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThe key is we\u2019re running low on the money and we\u2019ve already slow-walked everything we could,\u201d said one Republican senator who requested anonymity to discuss the increasingly dire funding situation for the war.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Democrats, for their part, were blaming Senate GOP conservatives who delayed votes on the bipartisan Senate measure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe element of the Senate Republicans that was working with McCarthy undermined Ukraine,\u201d said a Democratic aide, referring to the efforts of Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) to stall the Senate bill and instead promote a funding bill without Ukraine money. \u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The sudden turn of events angered Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) enough that he held up the stopgap funding bill for several hours on Saturday to negotiate more money for Ukraine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Democrats are also blaming McCarthy for putting a continuing resolution on the floor that didn\u2019t include any money for Ukraine. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was Speaker McCarthy who took Ukraine aid out and undermined the overwhelming will of members of Congress,\u201d the Democratic aide said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Saturday portrayed the passage of the 45-day continuing resolution as a victory for Democrats because it didn\u2019t include the steep cuts in spending \u2014 approaching 30 percent reductions \u2014 for many non-defense programs. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also said Democrats are committed to supporting the war in Ukraine. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to address the security situation in Ukraine to ensure that the Ukrainian people can continue to fight bravely and courageously and defeat Vladimir Putin and Russian aggression,\u201d he said. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An administration official pushed back on the Republican claim that Biden needs to do a better job at communicating to fellow Democrats the urgency of approving more money for Ukraine. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Biden has spoken regularly about the critical importance of funding Ukraine and has used the platform of the White House to amplify that message. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday the president said that McCarthy had promised to hold a \u201cseparate vote\u201d on Ukraine funding but White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre declined to say if Biden had struck some kind of separate deal with the Speaker on that matter.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Biden could have asked House Democrats to vote against the House GOP bill over Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>But Michael O\u2019Hanlon, a senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, questioned whether the president was in much of a position to make such a demand with the government on the brink of a shutdown. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know that Biden was in a position to demand funding for Ukraine as his top priority given the other stakes associated with the shutdown,\u201d he said\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. 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