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Here are the 70 House Republicans who voted to cut off all US military aid to Ukraine

Author:     Bryan Metzger
Source:     Business Insider
Publication Date:     Jul 13, 2023 | 2:51 PM PDT
 Link: Here are the 70 House Republicans who voted to cut off all US military aid to Ukraine
Stephan:  

The House of Representatives on the Republican MAGAt side is made up of men and women who have very little interest in actually governing. Their interests and their voting is all centered on their personal power and getting what they personally want whether it does harm to the country or not. They don’t seem capable of understanding the geopolitics of the Ukraine war, and why America’s support for the Ukrainians is to critically important. So they blunder around, doing damage to the United States with every turn.

The 70 House Republicans who voted to cut off US military aid to Ukraine. 
Credit: Office of the Clerk, US House of Representatives

70 House Republicans voted in favor of an amendment to the country’s annual defense bill that would have cut off all US military aid to Ukraine.

“Notwithstanding any provision of this or any other Act, no federal funds may be made available to provide security assistance to Ukraine,” reads the one-sentence amendment, one of the dozens offered by hard-right Republicans that lawmakers voted on over the course of Thursday evening.

The amendment easily failed by a 358-70 margin, with all Democrats and a majority of Republicans opposing the measure.

But the vote count offered the starkest indication yet of where House Republicans stand on sending military aid to the besieged European nation, which has defended itself against a Russian invasion since February 2022 with the help of tens of billions of dollars in US aid.

Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, the sponsor of the amendment, acknowledged during the floor debate on the measure earlier […]

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