McCarthy Warns Republicans May Trim Ukraine Aid If GOP Wins House

House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy said Republicans are prepared to pull back on US aid to Ukraine next year if they gain control of the House, reflecting a growing sentiment in the party for the country to be less involved overseas.

“I think people are gonna be sitting in a recession and they’re not going to write a blank check to Ukraine,” McCarthy said in an interview with Punchbowl News published Tuesday. “They just won’t do it.”

While supporting Ukraine in battling against Russia’s invasion still has bipartisan support in Congress, a faction of Republicans aligned with former President Donald Trump’s “America first” stance has been questioning the US role in providing weapons and other support. Congress passed $40 billion package of aid for Ukraine in May, with 11 Republicans in the Senate and 57 in the House voting against it. Another $12 billion in assistance was included in a stopgap government funding bill passed by Congress in September.

Republicans are likely to win control of the House in the November election, according to independent analysts, and McCarthy is poised to become speaker if that happens. Control of the Senate remains a toss-up, but even if Democrats retain control of that chamber a GOP House majority would be able stifle President Joe Biden’s agenda.

McCarthy in the interview said part of the reason for dialing back aid is that the Biden administration is ignoring domestic issues that the GOP sees as a priority, such as securing the US southern border.

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[AnzamulHyder]

Good job. Don’t waste our hard earned money on that stupid war. Help the countryman first

[Johnboyusa]

We could’ve bought a country with money we’ve gave Ukraine, but people in America can’t pay there bills . It’s time to give to our people .

[ccadena]

Not surprise he wants to help Russia !!🤔

[magnuscamper]

What do we get for helping Ukraine, absolutely nothing.

[johnnybamable]

Please do! We have so many problems at home, AKA America, that we cannot spend any more time or money on other people's problems.

[joshsmith]

Vote red, drain the swamp and get rid of the rats

[cathyjudson]

If we do not stop Russia here….our grandchildren will be doing duck and cover under their desks. This 72 year old remembers living in Imperial Beach, CA.

[Michiganian]

Here’s a thought McCarthy, stop listening to Trump

[jamesbishop]

If he wins the house we're all at trouble

[Malouco]

Yeah its too late to back out now.
We need to continue to support Ukraine and see who gives up.
I understand both positions but Ukraine 🇺🇦 president has made his own decisions and we can only do what an alliance wants.

[raoulh.]

REPUBLICAN: Why spend money on someone else, regardless of circumstances, when I could spend it on myself?

[robertdavie]

The US has, over time, steadily lost interest in defending western democracy, preferring instead, to look to its own interests as it has been drawing down its military capabilities through continual budget cuts over a number of decades. This is despite the fact that the US is the leading beneficiary of the liberal rules-based international order that evolved after the second world war. Now the world’s once leading global superpower has fallen behind China and Russia in both technological and military capability.

The reason the US has fallen so far behind China and Russia is because it prefers to give tax cuts to wealthy interests rather than collect those taxes and spend them on what it needs to in order to keep up with the technological change that is enabling China and Russia to surpass it. Constant budget cuts, decade after decade, has left the US military grossly underfunded to the point that some of its own personnel are forced to take out payday loans because their wages haven’t been paid.

“Australia has close to zero chance of getting a submarine from the United States’ current program, experts say, as yet another report shows the US is struggling to meet its own needs……………………….
……….. The latest report to Congress on the progress of the US’s shipbuilding efforts show the submarines “experienced cost growth” in the early part of the program, and now there’s a shortage of spare parts, maintenance delays for existing boats, and concerns about the shipyards’ capacity.”

Russian superiority over the US in the field of hypersonic missiles is showing up in a very real way in the conflict currently raging in Ukraine where the US is being openly intimidated by Russian threats to use their hypersonic missiles to deliver nuclear or conventional warheads against US targets. In short, this technology allows the Russians to land their hypersonic missiles on American targets before the US is even really aware that it is under attack. The US does not possess a hypersonic missile capability because it has neglected to invest in such a technology. The US is afraid of Russia and is being intimidated into passivity.

Fewer tax-paying workers due to the off-shoring of industries and jobs through globalisation and with big business paying little or no tax results in the weakening of western democracy and all it represents in this world. We see the effects of this at work in the Chinese who believe the US has been seriously and permanently weakened by the global financial crisis because, the fact is, that crisis has put China in a stronger economic and strategic position than the US. Evidence for this strategic edge can be found in the superiority of China over the US emerging in areas like AI, Quantum Computing, Nuclear Fusion and Hypervelocity missile technology where China has the resources to pursue these areas and the cash strapped US does not.

The only way forward for the US and the Western World is to now increase its spending on infrastructure which includes everything from education to defence. To do so will require the raising of corporate taxes to the same levels they were in the post-war period when the West was at the leading edge of global civilisation.

The only nation to benefit from the current conflict between NATO and Russia is China. Western democracy and freedom are at stake here.


The world needs to see leadership from the US at this time and not a display of its knowledge of military matters as it sits on the sidelines. The US needs to step up to the plate and provide Ukraine with the weapons it needs.

If Ukraine loses or cedes territory to Russia then Putin will feel confident enough to challenge NATO, but, if Ukraine wins then it is very unlikely that Putin will attempt any military action against NATO given that he can't defeat the Ukrainians.

If Putin attacks a NATO country then the US and the West will most definitely be involved in a major war.

[kk-mcsj]

Vote red. Maybe we can help our own peoples for once

[Liebuster]

How can the US have a speaker of the house who is a person who has no spine?

[miketrusky]

If it helps their beloved Russia and putin, republicans are for it!

[ingridgrattidge]

Frightening the Republicans’ myopic understanding of global concerns and its impact on domestic security here in America. Alarming!! Vote blue. Vote for the safety of our children.

[BidenAdultDependsspokesperson]

Okay, mcBarfy; put your money where your mouth is, you company man, We'll see where that "aid" goes when Mitch the turtle gets rolled off it's