A majority of House Republicans voted against sending more than $60 billion to Ukraine. But it passed anyway, and it now heads to the Senate.
  • The House passed a more than $60 billion bill that provides more military aid to Ukraine.
  • It’s part of a larger foreign aid package that’s likely to pass the Senate and be signed into law.
  • 112 Republicans voted it against — the most ever, and a majority of the GOP conference.

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Saturday’s vote marked the first time the House had approved billions of dollars in Ukraine aid since December 2022, when Democrats still controlled the chamber.

In the two years since Russia’s invasion, opposition to aiding Ukraine has grown from a fringe position to a majority view among House GOP lawmakers. Many argue the money should be spent domestically or that policy changes at the US-Mexico border should take precedence.

Here are the 112 House Republicans who voted against the bill.

  • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The article “forgets” to mention the “foreign aid package” also contains billions to support “totally not a Genocide” commiting regime of Israel.

    I am not sure I would vote for it myself and I definitely support Ukraine.

        • VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works
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          7 months ago

          Because they get full intelligence briefing on the entire complex situation rather than.just getting indignant on the internet because of some memes and polemic opinion pieces they saw the headlines of

          • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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            7 months ago

            they get full intelligence briefing on the entire complex situation

            The year is 2003 and Nancy Pelosi is whispering to constituents that - yes, all this might look sketchy on its face - but the CIA just gave the intelligence committee a tip about this source named “Curveball” that’s going to prove Saddam has WMDs and justify the whole thing.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        Which, paradoxically, means they’re all going to pass.

        The only piece of legislation the House really had beef with was the Ukraine bill. And they solved that by stapling the TikTok ban to it. Now the Dems in the Senate will greenlight all the money for Israel and Taiwan on reflex and choke down Ukraine as a sensible compromise.

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Republicans then: Yay McCarthyism!

    Republicans now: Daddy Putin, please step on my face uwu!

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Its the same picture. McCarthyism was far more about whipping domestic residents into subservience than opposing some foreign menace. The Republican alignment with Daddy Vlady is now just a litmus test for party line faithfulness. A kind of partisan hazing ritual, where you have to go on cable news and say the thing that will get liberals to boo at you, so you can prove you’re not one of them.

      Then you can start hitting the harder stuff. You get into the QAnon kool-aid that convinces you there’s a vast pedophile conspiracy to enslave white children, and only the most orthodox right-wing evangelicals can protect you from it.

      Modern day Birchers have far more beef with China than Russia anyway. For, uh… reasons.

    • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      The aid is in the form of outdated, surplus military equipment that was scheduled to be replaced anyways. The alternative is paying a company to dispose of them. So why don’t you want to send this aid to Ukraine where it can be used? The only people that should have any problem with this are those who are busy sucking Putin’s knob.

      • index@sh.itjust.works
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        7 months ago

        The only people that should have any problem with this are those who are busy sucking Putin’s knob.

        I would like to point out that russia is fine with this war otherwise they wouldn’t have started it. Politicians and government use wars as a tool to get more power and enrich themself which is pretty much what is happening right now too

  • avater@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    well you got the names, now how about doing a little background check if there is some russki money lying somewhere in those traitors bank accounts…

    • index@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      I’m doing background research and found a picture of biden laughing with medvedev and berlusconi. I guess it’s not just these 112 idiots who have ties with the mafia and russia but all of them are corrupted pigs in for the money and wealth

      • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        If Biden is also taking bribe money from Russia, as you suggest, then we should expect him to veto this bill, right?

        Neoliberals are conservatives, but they usually are not outright traitors the way Republican conservatives are.

        • index@sh.itjust.works
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          7 months ago

          If Biden is also taking bribe money from Russia, as you suggest, then we should expect him to veto this bill, right?

          No? While peasants get send to the front to die politicians are collecting wealth and power thanks to this war.

          You should expect politicians to do what’s in their personal greedy interest, being taking money from someone or stabbing them in the back.

  • computerscientistI@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Is this supposed to be some kind of public shaming? It’s not as if there weren’t any reasons not to issue a blank check to Ukraine.

    A comprehensible way to view this war is: One corrupt shit-hole country, formerly part of the Soviet Unions has attacked another corrupt shit-hole country, formerly part of the Soviet Union.

    I am German and I am happy with giving the Ukraine plenty of funds and other means in order for enabling them to stop Russia expending in my general direction. I don’t really see that much benefit for the US so. But thanks, every US dollar spent is about 1€ less we have to spend. Go for it.