{"id":1734730,"date":"2022-11-11T08:02:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T13:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1734730"},"modified":"2022-11-11T08:02:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T13:02:31","slug":"new-gop-members-of-congress-its-your-job-to-put-america-first-and-restrain-ukraine-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-gop-members-of-congress-its-your-job-to-put-america-first-and-restrain-ukraine-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"New GOP Members Of Congress, It\u2019s Your Job To Put America First And Restrain Ukraine Spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-gop-members-of-congress-its-your-job-to-put-america-first-and-restrain-ukraine-spending%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1734730&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>As the final results come in, the Republican Party will see at least a few new faces in Congress come January. <\/p>\n<p>Voters took to the polls with inflation as the top issue on their minds. Approximately a third of voters rated it the most important issue, and as a result 7 in 10 of them cast votes for Republicans, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/11\/08\/politics\/exit-polls-midterm-election-analysis\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Edison Research exit polls<\/a> show. What is perhaps not clear to the average American is how unrestrained spending on Ukraine and a U.S. energy policy that puts Europe first contributed to skyrocketing inflation and the cost of living reaching unbearable levels for American families. As new Republican members enter the halls of Congress, it is time to turn the \u201cAmerica First\u201d rhetoric into policies that push back against the establishment.<\/p>\n<p>It is no secret that the U.S. posture toward Ukraine has now evolved from arm\u2019s length, emergency support to full-on alliance without a formal treaty. It seems every time more military aid goes out to Ukraine, there are calls from Ukraine for yet more, and establishment members of Congress are all too eager to cut seemingly endless checks. Total aid passed by Congress is now greater than <a href=\"https:\/\/buffalonews.com\/stopgap-spending-bill-with-ukraine-aid-okd\/article_a3cfbc7f-3ae4-54ef-afca-6f7ee98d118b.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$66 billion<\/a>, making Ukraine the single greatest recipient of security assistance in a single year since the Vietnam era.<\/p>\n<p>Blank-check diplomacy is already creating a clash between Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. McConnell has more or less led the charge on overzealous aid to Ukraine. McCarthy, who is looking to become House speaker should Republicans reclaim the chamber, rallied a vote against <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/3696451-gop-leaders-mcconnell-mccarthy-headed-for-collision-on-ukraine-aid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">another $12.3 billion<\/a> in military and economic aid for Ukraine. <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/3696451-gop-leaders-mcconnell-mccarthy-headed-for-collision-on-ukraine-aid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">McCarthy tied<\/a> his position back to the economic pressures that out-of-control spending has placed on the backs of the American people, saying, \u201cI think people are gonna be sitting in a recession and they\u2019re not going to write a blank check to Ukraine.\u201d Big-name newly elected members agree with him. Eric Schmitt, the newly elected senator from Missouri, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eric_Schmitt\/status\/1524453257950732289\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweeted<\/a>, \u201c$40 billion to Ukraine but we can\u2019t protect our own southern border? Americans have had enough of Washington\u2019s America Last agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> New Members Must Resist the Establishment <\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t expect the Republican establishment to let such pushback stand without a fight. Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., called McCarthy\u2019s sentiment <a href=\"https:\/\/iop.harvard.edu\/forum\/whatever-it-takes-conversation-rep-liz-cheney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cdisgraceful,\u201d<\/a> and former <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/3695775-pence-pushes-back-us-must-provide-ukraine-with-resources-to-defend-themselves\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vice President Mike Pence<\/a> said, \u201cWe must continue to provide Ukraine with the resources to defend themselves.\u201d Pence also said, \u201cThere can be no room in the conservative movement for apologists for Putin.\u201d He\u2019s right, and to clear the air, nothing in the sentiment of putting America\u2019s national interests first includes making Russian President Vladimir Putin a pal. Claims to the contrary are pure fearmongering. To build on the vice president\u2019s maxim, however, there should also be no room in the conservative movement for bystanders who allow Europe to free-ride on American security ad infinitum. To those incoming \u201cAmerica First\u201d Republicans, get ready to fight.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, why should new members care to embrace<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unrestrained spending on Ukraine and a U.S. energy policy that puts Europe first contribute to skyrocketing inflation and cost of living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1325,"featured_media":1734733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1734730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1734730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1734733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}