C-SPAN's description-in-advance of today's House session is: "The House will consider legislation providing aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan. They’ll also work on a package of national security measures, including sanctions on Russia & Iran, & one to force China to divest from TikTok or the app will face a ban"

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15 comments

  1. Ukraine can’t wait any longer. I hope Congress can get their shit together and get this thing passed.

  2. Listening to McCaul talk on C-Span about something I agree with is a strange sensation indeed.

  3. My hope is that Biden has been moving material and staging it in a NATO country for the moment when we can move it into Ukraine.

  4. Feels great to see the (most) fascist faction in the Republican get some push back for all the sabotaging, infighting, threats – failing to block Ukranian aid bill after botching a once in a lifetime border deal with the Democrats because Trump wanted to campaign on the border.  

    Even better is their reaction to Johnsons surprisingly pro-Ukranian speech and the fact that the democrats might save him against getting toppled by the few fascists threatening to do so if the Ukraine bill goes through.

    More than half a year of chaos, at the cost of the nation & U.S citizens, GOP’s own party and it’s popularity, the people of Ukraine – for what? Nothing. 

    The pro-Putin Republicans got to delay vital aid to Ukraine, which probably was the whole point of all this.

  5. I’m very happy to hear the US is finally helping Ukraine and Taiwan. Much less so about Israel but that seems to be the price we also have to pay. Still a net win in my book. 

  6. If Republicans kill Ukraine aid in some way (delay, vote it down, whatever) then…nothing will have changed. They have been and still are acting like assets of a foreign adversary. 

    Heard an NPR bit with some R rep who insisted NOW was the right time to address this aid and the time just wasn’t right before. Oh, and the Dems were part of the problem since they voted to remove McCarthy. There’s not an honest Republican in the entire bunch. I hate to say it, but if we had another Red Scare and started “rooting out sympathizers” I’d have a real hard time looking at the big picture and realizing how bad that could end up. 

  8. Ukraine and Taiwan are pretty freaking important for global stability

  9. Guys, I’m a foreigner is there a timeframe where actual voting on Ukraine aid will occure?

  11. Iirc, there is also aid for Gaza included in these bills.

  12. Anyone else feel like something shifted last week after Trump met with Johnson? At the time the assumption was he received his instructions from his Master. What if it was actually Johnson who delivered a message, that Trump had lost the support of the Federalist Society and they were moving on?

  13. Is this the most useless Congress of the modern era? Should have done this 8 months ago. And what have they done with those 8 months? Absolutely nothing.

  15. As a foreign observer from the Philippines, thank you to the representatives who proposed an amendment to include my country in the Indo-Pacific Package.

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