Well, he
did, and the results are horrible not only for folks in the Ukraine but also for those in the eastern parts of Dixie who
could use that money right about now to rebuild.
***
There are
rumblings that Speaker Mike Johnson is about
to cave on his pledge not to approve any more spending on the Ukraine war:
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told
Republican senators Wednesday to expect the House to send them legislation to
help Ukraine, but cautioned that what comes out of the House will look
substantially different than the $95 billion foreign aid package the Senate
passed last month.
Johnson tried to
reassure frustrated GOP senators who asked him about funding for Ukraine during
a question-and-answer session at the annual Senate Republican retreat, which
was held at the Library of Congress.
Johnson told
senators that the House will send a Ukraine aid package to the Senate but
floated the idea of making it a loan or lend-lease program so U.S. taxpayers
would not be shelling out tens of billions of dollars without any expectation
of getting a return, according to senators who participated in the discussion.
The Speaker also
talked about including something similar to the REPO for Ukrainians Act,
sponsored by Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), which would authorize the
confiscation of Russian sovereign assets and deposit the proceeds of liquidated
property into a Ukraine support fund, senators said.
Notably, Johnson
did not say whether such a Ukraine aid package would include tough border
security reforms, such as “Remain in Mexico” language, which would face
opposition from Senate Democrats.
The Speaker
should be commended for holding out as long as he has, but he and the
Republicans ought to continue to hold the line; they ought not to buckle – for
a host of reasons.
First, the
Zelensky regime continue to show their totalitarian colors, as they have
recently arrested yet another group of Orthodoxy clergy and journalists to silence the opposition as the
Ukrainian parliament prepares to vote on a bill to ban the Ukrainian Orthodox
Church on phony charges of ‘Russian collusion’:
OrthoChristian reported on
Wednesday that Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) agents raided the offices
of representatives of the Union of Orthodox Journalists (UOJ) and the Legal
Defense Center of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
Yesterday,
the Union of Orthodox Journalists reported, with reference to
the Prosecutor General that more than 20 searches were
conducted in four provinces, also involving journalists from the First Cossack
outlet and the public union Laity.
The
Prosecutor General’s office wrote that the SBU neutralized the “media bloc of
the UOC,” allegedly created to destabilized Ukraine. The UOJ notes that the
Prosecutor General’s message says nothing about the alleged association with
the Russian Security Service (FSB), as was claimed in the earlier SBU
statement.
The
UOJ published an open appeal to international human rights organizations to
respond as they are able to the “detention and persecution” of the journalists,
lawyers, and human rights defenders. Five people are currently being held in a
pre-trial detention center.
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.
The rest is
at https://identitydixie.com/2024/03/23/speaker-johnson-shouldnt-fold-on-ukraine-war-funding/.
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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us
sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema to the Union!
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