Axios reported Monday that four House Republicans walked away from conversations with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) under the impression that he would allow a vote linking military aid for Ukraine and Israel if he becomes the new House speaker.
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) initially won the GOP nomination for House speaker but abandoned his bid after failing to gain enough support. Jordan was handed the nomination on Friday, but only 152 Republicans said they would support him in a vote on the House floor, short of the 217 votes that he needs.
Jordan has gained more support since Friday and has been meeting one-on-one with holdouts ahead of an expected vote on Tuesday. A spokesperson for Jordan told Axios that he hasn’t made promises in his conversations with other lawmakers and only discussed the best way to approach certain issues.
But one of the House Republicans who spoke with Jordan said, “He’s not going to block a vote” linking military aid for Israel and Ukraine. Jordan has voted against previous spending packages for the proxy war in Ukraine, but is a staunch supporter of Israel and has called for Congress to authorize more military assistance for Israel.
The Washington Post first reported last week that the White House planned to link aid for Ukraine and Israel in an effort to “jam the far right,” referring to House Republicans who are against the proxy war in Ukraine but strongly back Israel. The White House has also discussed the idea of adding aid for Taiwan and funds for border security to further entice Republicans to support a huge spending package.
Of course.
If Jordan is for more Ukraine crap, to hell with him, too.
No, best we can hope for is keeping the intramural stuff raging.
It’s our inner contradictions made manifest.
I’m for Israel, but I’m for America first. Money isn’t what Israel needs anyway. Let’s stop spending money on ANY other country until our border is closed and the illegals are DEPORTED. And our power grid is fixed. And our tent cities are gone. And our streets are safe. AMERICAN PRIORITIES. So vote on financing other countries’ wars separately or as a package…but vote them DOWN.
I’m not for Israel, but I am for spending on our domestic priorities.
Buy ’em off. It’s always the same BS, which is why we never end up doing anything either effective or ethical.
He’d likely “allow” most anything if picked.
Sell out.
The Repugninants never miss an opportunity to be repugnant. But, that’s not funny. The funny part is neither do the Demo Rats.
Proving, yet once again, that there is no antiwar party or even an antiwar faction in congress. Rand Paul comes the closest to being a one-man faction, but his balls shrink when push comes to shove.
Everybody is Congress is either a Jewish or a Christian Zionist and all but 1 or 2 will support a Three Front War. What none of them understand is that this is not terrorism, it’s a Slave Rebellion. The Israelis have Cold Feet and are afraid to start the Slaughter.
“The Israelis have Cold Feet and are afraid to start the Slaughter.”
“Cold feet”? What are you talking about – Israel has been openly “slaughtering” innocent civilians for ten days…
…declaring ‘there are no innocents’: “Israeli President Says There Are No Innocent Civilians in Gaza.” (antiwar 10/15/23)
Funny, he cannot find enough support to be appointed.
Politics trumps Truth – and Ethics.