Well, remember they’re playing chess here so let’s not pretend our Speaker is giving away the farm. He stated right in the article OP linked that new funding to Ukraine needs to be tied to securing our own borders. This puts the demonrats into another corner. From the article :
“… Johnson went on to claim that his GOP will not approve additional Ukraine funding unless it comes in tangent with funding to secure America’s own border, but the GOP’s track record on this promise and others like it is not very good.
“What we’ve said is that if there is to be additional assistance to Ukraine, which most members of Congress believe is important, we have to also work in changing our own border policy and so there’s been a lot of thoughtful negotiation ongoing with that,” said Johnson, adding that he believes that the Senate, which has been vehemently pro-Ukraine and pro-war, agrees with him. …”
Making deals to help other countries with our money just to secure our own -- still with our own money -- is not a good thing, and this cannot be twisted.
I am tired of seeing additional expenses used on other countries just so they agree to let us use our money on ourselves.
And remember, when he adds funding for border, its not just that he is asking permission to spend money on ourselves, he is asking them to permit throwing a spanner into enemy assets (because open borders are one of the enemy assets). This is a chess for a reason.
Well, remember they’re playing chess here so let’s not pretend our Speaker is giving away the farm. He stated right in the article OP linked that new funding to Ukraine needs to be tied to securing our own borders. This puts the demonrats into another corner. From the article :
“… Johnson went on to claim that his GOP will not approve additional Ukraine funding unless it comes in tangent with funding to secure America’s own border, but the GOP’s track record on this promise and others like it is not very good.
“What we’ve said is that if there is to be additional assistance to Ukraine, which most members of Congress believe is important, we have to also work in changing our own border policy and so there’s been a lot of thoughtful negotiation ongoing with that,” said Johnson, adding that he believes that the Senate, which has been vehemently pro-Ukraine and pro-war, agrees with him. …”
Warms my heart to see that we still have Anons who critically analyse fake news that comes from the controlled opposition right wing sources. Kudos.
Making deals to help other countries with our money just to secure our own -- still with our own money -- is not a good thing, and this cannot be twisted.
I am tired of seeing additional expenses used on other countries just so they agree to let us use our money on ourselves.
And remember, when he adds funding for border, its not just that he is asking permission to spend money on ourselves, he is asking them to permit throwing a spanner into enemy assets (because open borders are one of the enemy assets). This is a chess for a reason.
Lets wait until the deal is done. So far, he is proposing a deal with a catch added.
We have no choice but to wait, but we can still criticize. In this case, the criticism is of Congress as a whole though.