House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said he will strip money meant for training Ukrainian soldiers from the defense appropriations bill, which hard-line conservative members in his conference opposed, and hold a separate vote on it.
The defense appropriations bill included a provision for $300 million to go toward training for Ukrainian soldiers. Some members who were blocking the defense funding bill from coming to the floor by voting against a procedural motion twice this week cited the provision as one of their reasons for doing so.“I just voted NO to the rule for the Defense bill because they refused to take the war money for Ukraine out and put it in a separate bill,” Rep.
And 55% of Americans and 71% of Republican voters agree with me that we should stop funding a war in Ukraine.Acknowledging this reality, McCarthy said Friday he would strip the provision out of the bill and hold a separate vote on it. At 1 p.m. on Friday, the House Rules Committee is set to meet to consider a rules package that would include the defense appropriations bill, homeland appropriations bill, state and foreign operations appropriations bill, and the agriculture appropriations bill.
The speaker said he still believes that if “you shut down, you're in a weaker position,” and so he will move forward next week with trying to pass a Republican-only continuing resolution that includes spending caps and border security provisions.
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