Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) announced Friday that he will strip funding for Ukraine out of a Pentagon spending bill after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) joined conservatives in blocking the legislation from advancing earlier this week.

McCarthy said he would remove the $300 million for Ukraine currently in the Pentagon appropriations bill and hold a separate vote on the funding.

“It would be out and voted on by itself,” McCarthy said when asked about the Ukraine aid in the Pentagon appropriations bill.

The Speaker’s announcement comes one day after a band of five conservatives opposed a procedural vote for the Pentagon appropriations bill, sinking the effort and preventing the legislation from moving forward. It was the second time this week that hard-liners blocked the funding bill from advancing.

  • Nougat
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    910 months ago

    Well, why don’t we have every single line item in its own bill then, and vote up or down on every single thing? Perhaps every individual word could be its own bill.

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      10 months ago

      Honestly, I feel like maybe that’s the way it should be.

      It’s idealistic, I know, but I really dislike the idea of tit for tat pork being attached to get routine government programs funded.

      The problem is these assholes prefer to extract everything they can through brinksmanship and spinning tires rather than actually going to the compromise they all know will be settled on.

      • @Fedizen@lemmy.world
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        510 months ago

        If we’re talking gov funding bills they should all be passed a year in advance. This constant edging shit is a result of the news cycle.

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          10 months ago

          exactly. In an ideal world, each item should be it’s own thing, discussed on it’s own merits, without any risk of that thing getting defunded because of political wankery. they certainly shouldn’t be lumping in a watering down of federal authority to control immigration rules, for example.