After Hamas’ surprise attack on Oct. 7, Republicans and Democrats in Congress both said they needed to act quickly to help Israel.
At the time, the House was floundering without a speaker, and members cited the necessity of sending immediate aid to a close U.S. ally as a motivating reason for solving the speaker drama.
But five weeks after Mike Johnson (R-LA) was elected speaker, and nearly eight weeks since the attack, Congress doesn’t appear any closer to passing an aid package—for Israel or for Ukraine, the latter of which has been “weeks” away from running out of weapons for months now.
As Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) told The Daily Beast this week, Ukraine needed an aid package in October.
Yes, it’s weeks away from running out of weapons, then we approve an interim relief bill, then they’re weeks ways again, etc, ad museum for months because the republicans refuse to pass an omnibus spending bill or even relief and weapons bill that gives them what they really need before they have to turn around and ask again.
They created this mess so they could then bitch about it and blame the dems, just like the national debt they always rack up when in power.
I could be mistaken, but I don’t think either of the stopgap bills included Ukraine aid.
The US isn’t the only country giving aid and weapons… other countries have provided extra stuff in the meantime
I’m not sure which of the most recent bills included aid for Ukraine, but that just reinforces my point about GOP interference with the continuity of support.