The Pro-Putin Party Likely to Control the House
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I have a lot of thoughts about the likelihood of Republicans taking the House, including that the idea that most voters actually care about reproductive rights is one of those lies liberals have wanted to tell themselves for a long time that again is demonstrably untrue. I’ll be talking about this in more detail if this actually happens. But one of the upshots of the likely Republican takeover of the House is that the party is going to do everything possible to help Putin’s imperialist war against Ukraine.
Earlier in October, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy – the top Republican in the House of Representatives – suggested that a Republican-controlled Congress would be disinclined to write a “blank check” for Ukraine.
“I think people are going to be sitting in a recession, and they’re not going to write a blank check to Ukraine,” he told Punchbowl News.
Currently, his party are favourites to take control of the House, the lower chamber of Congress which initiates all spending resolutions, according to the US Constitution. As Speaker, Mr McCarthy would decide which bills come to the floor for a vote.Other Republicans have expressed similar doubts. In May, for example, Missouri Senator Josh Hawley said that Ukraine aid is “not in America’s interests” and “allows Europe to freeload”.
The comments appear to have highlighted divisions in the party, with former Vice-President Mike Pence harshly condemning Putin “apologists” and members of his own party that would “have us disengaged with the wider world”.
Similarly, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has called on the White House to step up assistance to Ukraine, saying the US needs “to do more to supply the tools Ukraine needs to thwart Russian aggression”.
Notably, only Republicans – 57 in the House of Representatives and 11 in the Senate – voted against a $40m aid package to Ukraine in the spring.
This is going to work the way it always works. The far right will set the agenda and the rest of the Republican Party will acquiesce because Herr Trump’s friends in Saudi Arabia and Russia will move the money in the right way to see it through.
Also, what’s with putting the period outside the quotation marks in this article? It’s a BBC article so is this is a British style thing such as adding additional “u”s to words such as “labour?”