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House Republicans will pass Ukraine aid after backing down on border demand
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Not so much, no. Trump and therefore the party are beholden to Putin and pretending to oppose funding for Ukraine for fiscal reasons while wanting to write a blank check to Netanyahu's genocide.
The republican party universally sucks, but it isn't a monolith on this topic. Many old school republicans hate Russia and love funding the military industrial complex.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/13/politics/senate-vote-foreign-aid-ukraine-israel-dg/index.html
The vote passed 70-29 in the Senate.
The margins are so slim in the house, you only need a handful to vote in favor for this to pass.
If 22 of 48 republicans voted in favor of it in the Senate, you can get at least that many in the House, which is more than enough.
Their only play to prevent this was to avoid bringing it to the floor, which is exactly what they've done for the last month.
Even as a split bill, this should pass easily.
That vote was held before Trump had full control over the RNC coffers...anyone who doesn't vote the way Trump wants them to will either see a party-funded challenge from their right during their next primary or no funding during the general.
Trump isn't going to give them money, anyway. He took over the RNC to funnel every dollar to himself. These are the Republicans who are evil but not dumb, and they know what Trump is doing here.
I think they all see Trump using the RNC coffers to pay his legal bills so they’re going to try and get money the other way: Sucking up to companies worth hundreds of billions of dollars and claim they brought jobs to their districts. You know, how our broken ass system has worked from the 1970s-2016.