The Senate adjourned for the holidays on Wednesday without reaching a deal on Ukraine aid and will not return to Washington until January 8.
The Senate was initially due to break for holiday recess at the end of last week but Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) had senators return on Monday to try and reach a border deal to unlock a massive $111 billion spending package that includes military aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.
Republicans want significant changes to asylum and immigration laws to restrict the flow of migrants entering the country before approving the foreign military aid package, which includes over $60 billion to fund the Ukraine war for another year. The White House has indicated it’s willing to support new immigration restrictions, but it’s unclear when an agreement will be made.
According to The Hill, a group of Senate and White House negotiators have agreed to hold virtual meetings over Christmas and New Year’s break, but no votes will happen until next year. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) adjourned his chamber last week. Johnson and other Republican leadership have made clear they will support the foreign military aid package once the Democrats make enough concessions on border policy.
Democrats are lashing out at Republicans for not approving the aid for Ukraine. “You know who is going to have the best Christmas imaginable? Vladimir Putin,” Sen. Mark Warner wrote on X. “Our failure to renew aid to Ukraine is a tremendous gift to him. We must get it done next year.”
The $111 billion bill includes $14 billion in additional military aid for Israel to support its Gaza onslaught. House Republicans passed a separate bill to give Israel the $14 billion that cut funding to the IRS, but it was not taken up by the Senate.
Without human decency and a conscience our elected scum is able to enjoy a merry Christmas. Real humans can’t forget the starving Palestinians in Gaza. The wealthy politicians are less than human animals, they are scum. Animals don’t do to their kind what they do to others human beings including children. Only evil humans can do that.
Maybe the pope at least remembers to say a prayer for the suffering, starving Palestinian people in Gaza. A bowl of soup would be better for the starving people, but that would be too much to ask for.
Dude! If Jesus was born today, we would be starving and killing him with the rest of the Palestinians in Bethlehem.
They’d be pressuring Mary to go to a Planned Parenthood clinic.
LOL
Mary would have known better a be on the pill and not believe in BS fairy tales.
BS fairy tales are your stock and trade, scumbag.
Stock and trade? Lol
Scumbag.
If Jesus was born today he would be a US citizen living in NYC or Texas. Most likely an atheist.
Jesus would be Israeli.
If religions were born in the 20th or 21st Century, there would be a prophet from the American South that Christian Fundamentalists would call God or the most god like person on Earth.
Jesus would be in an Israeli prison.
The only scum I can see is the MAGA-Pootin caucus.
What about the banderite-nazis? They are surely more scummy than the imaginary “MAGA-Pootin caucus.”
What about the RUSSIAN Nazis?
There are exponentially more Nazis in Russia than in Ukraine. Many of whom work directly for Putin.
🤷🏽♂️
What about them? My government isn’t bankrolling them so there’s not much for me to do about it. Seems like a problem for the Russian people to address.
Your government? Lol.
You criticize the Ukrainian “Nazis” but left out the Russian ones because apparently that’s not your country? What a bag of trash you typed.
blah blah blah. All you can do is spew shit. How are things going today in Ukraine? How’s the counter offensive going? Still winning?
Get new glasses.
Obviously, you do not choose to see the world as it actually is. It’s a sickness which for some reason, seems to afflict nincompoops and boobs. Now I’m going to block your posts, since you appear to be seriously out of kilter. Good luck with your recovery!
Don’t worry Israel will have enough to bullets to be slaughter another 10k Arabs
They think all of us have disappearing memory too.
They have no phucks to give for Ukrainians who have lost 300k lives at least, more permanently injured, who they chastised for being casualty averse, and bragged how none of their troops were dying and it was an investment. They completely dehumanized Ukrainian people as little pawns and prove it every time they admit it is to hurt Putin.
Says the one that supports Putin’s invasion and annexation of Ukraine sovereign land.
Hypocrite.
Whatever your opinion, it is nothing to me, I have to live with my conscience and be able to look in the mirror.
Waging war and massacring a defenseless nation, more than half of them children, babies, makes you a baby killer, and an accomplice to war crimes.
The members of the US government are war criminals, they have less character than MAFIA criminals. Nothing to be proud of.
Real Human beings would condemn the Hamas Pogrom and demand that all hostages be released,and all rapists turned over for trial.
Real humans do condemn Hamas’ attack and want all hostages released. Real human beings also believe Israel should be held accountable for a horrific brutal response that makes the Hamas’ attack look like a Sunday picnic. But you’d have to make marked improvements to qualify as a real human being so never mind.
Real Humans, Hamas are fighting, willing to die for their human rights. The Israelis are holding thousands of Palestinians hostage in brutal prisons.
Real human beings support Hamas and oppose the massacre of unarmed civilian Palestinians and their children, including their babies. Real people with decency oppose to withhold food, shelter and medical care from the Palestinians. You can’t put lip stick on war criminals, our government officials have less decency than brutal criminal Mafia types.
“won’t approve a $111 billion foreign military aid package”
The only loser is China who wants to lend money to the US!
China’s been cutting its US government debt holdings for years.
China is the big winner. As soon as they see Ukaine thrown to the slaughter, they’ll take Taiwan.
The sooner Ukraine is divided between Russia, Poland and Hungary the better. Ukraine is a black hoke that sucks up money faster then Hunter Biden can snort up a line of cocaine.
I didn’t see Hunter Biden on the ballot in 2020. (You know, the year your Orange Daddy lost.) I’m pretty sure Hunter isn’t running in 2024 either.
However, I’m curious to hear what you’ll have to say about Trump when his relationship with Jeffery Epstein is made public. (Tell me, is doing coke and paying hookers worse than pedophilia?)
Richard to Pryor once said’ Cocaine is God’s way of saying you on are making too much money”.
Good. The sooner the U.S. empire ends the better it will be for world peace. In the words of MLK, Jr. America is “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.”
It’s the same propaganda as always. If you don’t agree with our war, then you’re with the enemy!
Exactly.
Jfc, what a moron.
That reminds me of W’s War On Terror: “Either You Are With Us Or You Are With The Terrorists”.
According to that, you have to pick a side, you can’t be neutral.
Russia will be lighting up Ukraine for Christmas with FAB500s, Kinzhals, and Geranium drones.
Merry Christmas Ukraine your days are numbered.
Russia gets Eastern Ukraine, Poland and Hungary get Western Ukraine.
Not very “antiwar” but I’m going to assume by your other posts that you’re a hypocrite/MAGA/D-bag.
You’re not antiwar, you’re just anti-Democrat. BTW, how’d your insurrection go on Jan 6th? (Hurts, doesn’t it?)
Again, can the diammetrically-opposed Thinkers please not fight so close to Christmas ? All the family’s here.
I do not support either party as they are both the Uni-Party of Kleptocrats. George W Bush was as stupid as Joey Biden is senile.
Sounds possible.
It’s going to be a rough Christmas. Thinking of all the Palestinians, Ukrainians, and Taiwanese waiting for our funding to enable their certain deaths breaks my heart. Please pass the “$111 billion foreign military aid package” to help end their suffering. They’re dying to REST IN PEACE. (Yes, I know it’s terrible sarcasm, that’s why I wrote it)
Taiwan must be allowed to determine its own destiny.
As I understand the history of Ukraine, there was such an entity quite early and Kyiv was a religious center for Ukraine and Muscovy. I also understand that it was much smaller than today’s Ukraine and was overrun many times. By Lithuanians, Poles, Russians, Germans. Crimea was once Turkic. If Ukraine joins the EU it will be its largest state in surface.
The most recent occupation was by NAZI Germany. It is well known what Hitler intended to do with the land of Ukraine and its people. Numerous Russians (and Ukrainians and other nationalities) died to prevent that genocide from happening and make Zelensky possible. That cannot be ignored either.
“The most recent occupation was by NAZI Germany. ”
Actually, the most recent occupation commenced in 2022.
2014
Correct. History has consequences.
We don’t need this stinking deal. See that other article titled, “US Eyes Frozen Russian Central Bank Funds to Fund Ukraine.” Congress always votes unanimously for stealing OPM. That’s exactly why we have our military. We can give ourselves 3 Merry Christmases and be rest assured millions if not billions will die! (Sarcasm)
“Congress always votes unanimously for stealing OPM…”
Elderly conservatives in my family : “Well I just don’t understand the whole appeal of this ‘the* BRICS’ thing, and ‘the* cryptocurrency’ !”
*superfluous “the” added by old people. See also, “the YouTubes” and “the Facebook”.
LOL. Cringe alert: My neighbor outraged by the “atrocities” committed by pro-Palestinian Harvard students.
Harvard should loose its tax exempt status.
I think it’s tight enough already.
It’s not the holiday season without close proximity to dimwit bulbs.
After some serious thought I have come to the conclusion that the US Government is seriously fucked up.
Truly wise words Wendell.
Happy holidays Donna, is going to be on a rough ride for humans who care about life and death.
It seems strange to me that all of these issues of truly grave concern, don’t get a pause or a break?………………………………………………………
I have long wished for my Parliament to restructure such that MP’s are paid the Federal Minimum Wage (CDN$16.65/hr) for hours worked (in Parliament, not doing office s**t), with the Prime Minister making a +$1/hr “shift premium” on top for his role as PM. No Golden Parachute pensions or such nonsense; benefits equal to that of union gov’t employees.
Watch then as they don’t adjourn for months at a time, and are actually legislating and updating outdated legislation 40 hrs/week.
“‘You know who is going to have the best Christmas imaginable? Vladimir Putin,’ Sen. Mark Warner wrote on X. ‘Our failure to renew aid to Ukraine is a tremendous gift to him.'”
But ‘Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and Boing are going to be very sad,’ the Senator added off record, ‘when, on Christmas morn, they tumble downstairs and their shocked eyes behold their stockings are empty.’
You so totally rock!
Listen, if you didn’t buy Raytheon in 2014, it’s you’re own fault. What have you got against capitalism? You a commie?
“if you didn’t buy Raytheon in 2014, it’s you’re own fault”
Raytheon? lol – not going for prosthetics I’m kicking myself for. Know how many Uke arms and legs been blown off? That’s where I missed making a killing.
We’re still a few years off from Eldon Tyrell’s megacorporation and its ability to make products “more human than human.” THAT’S where my $$$ is going !
This may go indefinitely which is good…! Fund the homeless and US veterans in this country instead…!
Good for Pootin, you mean. Ukrainians are dying in their trenches for lack of ammo–while defending the free world from Pootin’s insanity.
“…defending the free world…”
Yes. New Zealand, Australia, all of South America, every country in the Caribbean, Japan, Micronesia, Palau, The Gambia, both Mauritius and Mauritania, Lesotho, Swaziland, AND Mexico, among other of the “free world” TOTALLY under peril from a limited Russian military action in a country bordering the Russian Federation, each send the Heroic Medal of Patriotic Zeal to the elderly and infirm Aryans and Aryan-tolerables getting massacred in eastern Ukraine for Neil Young’s “free world”.
Im not sure which war you are watching but all i have seen so far with thousands of video footage on YouTube to back it up, is Russians dying in trenches.
Dying by grenade dropping drones, hypothermia, alcoholism, drug overdoses, mouse fever by their poor unsanitary practices, artillery and “friendly” fire.
7 : 1 russian to Ukrainian soldier death ratio.
But i know the kremlin is notorious for reversing the figures.
Ukrainians have routine troop rotations in place, good field sanitation, and better equipment, and food and water.
RIGHT, Like that will work ever happen.
A little more than a two week respite. It’s not much but I’ll take it.
They’ll be back after they composed a proper eulogy.
Welcome to NATO, Ukraine!
“Bring GDP.”
War Memo: Yo, Burisma is Not Ukrainian. It’s Russian.
https://ukrainetoday.org/war-memo-yo-burisma-is-not-ukrainian-its-russian/
Path to victory: the EU and the US have found options for financing Ukraine, despite Hungary and Congress
https://ukrainetoday.org/path-to-victory-the-eu-and-the-us-have-found-options-for-financing-ukraine-despite-hungary-and-congress/
https://youtube.com/shorts/A1KZzILcV1Y?si=f2BQQAg9GAvPEJTW
As I am for defunding the Empire and demilitarizing Ukraine, I rise in support of this bill!