Mitch McConnell offered a strong endorsement on Sunday of the Joe Biden White House’s $106bn aid proposal to Israel and Ukraine, saying he and the president were essentially “in the same place” on the issue.
McConnell, the powerful Republican leader in the Senate, also rebuffed some of his GOP colleagues in the Senate who have called for a package separating assistance for the two countries, saying it would be “a mistake” during an interview on CBS’s Face the Nation.
The Republican leader offered significant backing to the White House’s $106bn request, including $14bn in assistance to Israel, $60bn in aid to Ukraine and another $14bn to improve security on the US Mexico border. An additional $10bn would be allocated to humanitarian relief as well as an additional $7bn to the Indio-Pacific region.
Mitch McConnell, infamous obstructionist, isn’t obstructing? Something is very, very wrong.
His programming was reset after his last crash.
McConnell isn’t a Matt Gaetz. He’s an absolute asshat, but he does have real policy objectives and viewpoints, and a select few of them align with general American opinion. It also helps that he and Biden have known each other for a very long time and have always been on reasonably friendly terms.
Wanna bet that he does have investments or other stakes in the American military industrial complex?
Is it really that hard to imagine that he genuinely believes that aiding Israel and Ukraine are good ideas?
Of course not. It’s just hard to imagine those beliefs being primary motives for his actions.
With that turtle? Yes.
He thought he was asking for Tapioca for lunch and hit the wrong button.
The aud package is just a bribe to get lobbyists to get out and try and get a speaker elected to get paid. I bet Mitch is happy to get that money too and thinks the bribe will work.