{"id":1755228,"date":"2022-11-29T12:45:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T17:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1755228"},"modified":"2022-11-29T12:48:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T17:48:32","slug":"gop-promises-oversight-and-transparency-while-still-cutting-checks-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-promises-oversight-and-transparency-while-still-cutting-checks-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Promises Oversight and Transparency While Still Cutting Checks to Ukraine"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fgop-promises-oversight-and-transparency-while-still-cutting-checks-to-ukraine%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=1755228&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.11.29-02.41-thepoliticalinsider-63857165193d1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">If anyone believed that the Republican Party would slow down monetary and military support for Ukraine, I hate to break it to you but they are still very much the same war hawks they were before the recent midterms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Biden administration has pounced on the idea that if Republicans were elected to Congress and could clinch a majority in the House, support for Ukraine could potentially be in danger. Yet here we are, with a slim majority in the House and the GOP parading out their best and brightest to assuage any fears that anything might change under their watch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">So while a few Republican firebrands made bold claims that support for Ukraine would come to a complete stop, the truth is it will more than likely remain precisely the same. The soon-to-be GOP chairmen of the House Armed Services and Intelligence Committees said just that on ABC.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Incoming GOP chairmen of the House Armed Services and Intelligence Committees went on ABC to give full assurance that Ukraine funds will continue flowing without interruption. If anything, Rep. McCaul (R-TX) criticizes Biden for not going far enough in sending long-range missiles<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Tracey (@mtracey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtracey\/status\/1596944092420018177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/biden-requests-lawmakers-ram-through-37-billion-for-ukraine-before-new-congress-is-sworn-in\/?utm_source=home-headline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden Requests Lawmakers Ram Through $37 Billion For Ukraine Before New Congress is Sworn In<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Not Doing Enough<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Republican Congressmen\u00a0Michael McCaul and Michael Turner went on ABC to outline how things will be different under GOP leadership in the House. Interestingly, the way things will be different is that they will be entirely and utterly the same, with both gentlemen hinting that perhaps the Biden administration isn\u2019t doing enough to support Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">When asked about providing longer-range weaponry to Ukraine that could reach Russian forces in Crimea, Rep. McCaul boldly stated that\u00a0<\/span>\u201cCrimea is not part of Russia under international law. So if they can hit into Crimea I think that\u2019s fair game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Someone, please let Rep. McCaul know that this war isn\u2019t some board game where you roll the dice and play by set rules hoping for the best. Rep. Turner then attempted to throw some shade at the President\u2019s party.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"subscribe\" class=\"email-signup inarticle\">\n<h4>Support Conservative Voices!<\/h4>\n<h5><strong>Sign up to receive the latest<\/strong> political news, insight, and commentary delivered directly to your inbox.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe President\u2019s got some difficulties in his own party,\u201d said Turner. \u201cAs you know, 30 members of his party sent a letter saying, although we\u2019re for aid, you should immediately begin negotiating some form of surrender from Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">While I rarely find anything measured and reasonable from the Progressive Caucus, the letter differed from how the Congressman made it out. Then again, calling for negotiated peace makes you a <em>Putin apologist\u00a0<\/em>these days according to some, so it\u2019s fair game to twist the letter\u2019s words to fit a convenient narrative.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m calling for an audit of every single penny that has been sent to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>This must be done as soon as possible for the American people.<\/p>\n<p>Taxpayers deserve transparency and they deserve to see where their money is going. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WKg7YuPfFI\">pic.twitter.com\/WKg7YuPfFI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@RepMTG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMTG\/status\/1592932360554938370?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/pentagon-admits-it-cant-account-for-2-trillion-again\/?utm_source=home-featured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pentagon Admits It Can\u2019t Account for $2 Trillion \u2013 AGAIN<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Empty Promises<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The difference that the GOP is trying to sell to the American people is that under their leadership, there will be this reining in of reckless unaccounted-for spending and aid.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>McCaul stated that \u201cWe have a voice now and we\u2019re going to do this in an accountable way, with transparency to the American people. These are American taxpayer dollars going in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This was the same argument posed by Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who submitted a bill requiring a full audit of money and aid sent to Ukraine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/gop-blocking-ukraine-aid-would-devastating-former-nato-commander-1762567\">According<\/a> to Greene, \u201cThe American people, the taxpayers of this country deserve to know where their money is going and how it\u2019s being spent\u2026 With the money we\u2019ve sent to Ukraine, we could have already secured our border, but we\u2019re not doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Why are people from Ukraine lobbying my office? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RfhO2B3PPY\">pic.twitter.com\/RfhO2B3PPY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@RepMTG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMTG\/status\/1572640601077698561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This is all well and good, except our government can\u2019t seem to adequately account for funds sent to the Pentagon to the tune of $2 trillion, so my faith in the GOP\u2019s ability to enforce anything in Congress, let alone accountability and transparency, is pretty thin.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Blank Checks<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Leading up to the midterms, some Republicans made some bold claims. Greene <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/3719467-marjorie-taylor-greene-under-republicans-not-another-penny-will-go-to-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed\u00a0<\/a>that with a Republican majority, that \u201cnot another penny will go to Ukraine!\u201d Nobody believed that line though, not even her if she\u2019s being completely honest with herself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Suspected soon-to-be Speaker Kevin McCarthy had previously\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/11\/27\/mccaul-republicans-blank-check-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cPeople are gonna be sitting in a recession and they\u2019re not going to write a blank check to Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It didn\u2019t take long for his counterpart in the Senate to put out a statement signaling that none of these claims actually meant anything. On Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell\u2019s official website, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.republicanleader.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/democrats-must-stop-fighting-american-energy-and-start-aiding-ukraine-faster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">affirmed<\/a>\u00a0he\u2019d continue to support sending even more financial aid and weaponry to Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden administration and our allies need to do more to supply the tools Ukraine needs to thwart Russian aggression,\u201d said McConnell\u2019s official statement.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">As if sensing that perhaps his mouth wrote a check his political power can\u2019t cash. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Congressman McCarthy came out to water down his talk of blank checks asserting his support for the status quo, later\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/republicans-try-allay-concerns-us-aid-ukraine-ahead-election-day-rcna56016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stating,\u00a0<\/a>\u201cI\u2019m very supportive of Ukraine. I think there has to be accountability going forward.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Ah, yes, government accountability, the unicorn of the Hill.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Most probable outcome by far is a horrible war of attrition that destroys Ukraine &#038; severely damages Russia, with massive body count on both sides.<\/p>\n<p>And, in the end, the same outcome. <\/p>\n<p>So why?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1583149077792858112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/classic-2014-trump-tweet-hightlights-bidens-2022-foreign-policy-failure\/?utm_source=home-featured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Classic 2014 Trump Tweet Highlights Biden\u2019s 2022 Foreign Policy Failure<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">There seem to be a lot of bureaucrats and politicians saying the quiet part out loud. For example, McCaul said in the ABC interview that if Ukraine falls to Russia, that would give the green flag to China to go and take Taiwan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">His statement is a blatant acknowledgment that this is a proxy war we are funding that could dangerously turn into a hot war between Russia and us. Turner hammered on the Progressive Caucus for calling for negotiations. Still, the head of the military, General Mark Milley, also flirted with the concept.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He recently opined that winter might be a perfect time for Ukraine and Russia to attempt to negotiate peace, stating that a full-on victory for Ukraine is unlikely through military means alone. However, former U.S. Army Europe Commander Ben Hodges disagrees with General Milley,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople should get their heads around the idea that Ukraine is going to defeat Russia on the battlefield, the old fashioned way,\u201d said Hodges in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/11\/14\/u-s-ukraine-milley-negotiations-00066777\">Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">What way would that be? The way we beat the Taliban in Afghanistan? The way we defeated ISIS in Iraq? Or perhaps the way we beat North Vietnam and the Viet Cong.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden Admin is giving blank check to military industrial complex &#038; corrupt bureaucrats in Ukraine, while pushing for 87k new IRS agents to squeeze every penny from Americans. Their actions expose who they really care about. It&#8217;s not us. It\u2019s a govt of, by &#038; for the powerful elite <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/la4hpl52DR\">pic.twitter.com\/la4hpl52DR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tulsi Gabbard \ud83c\udf3a (@TulsiGabbard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TulsiGabbard\/status\/1593922920547426304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Same Story, Different Day<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">As usual, nothing will change much in D.C., and support for Ukraine will continue with little to no oversight. We seem destined to continue repeating the same foreign policy mistakes, and no amount of elections is going to break the cycle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Turner said of the letter from the Progressive Caucus that the letter said\u00a0<\/span>\u201cthe White House should decide who lives under authoritarian regime under Russia with these atrocities and the murderousness and who\u2019s going to live under freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Besides his paraphrasing being way off, the reality is we often do just that, don\u2019t believe me? Look to Afghanistan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Given that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-11-17\/republicans-are-pledging-tough-scrutiny-of-ukraine-aid-under-house-control\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports show<\/a> the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv is unable to track funds coming into Ukraine from the United States properly, I think it will only be a matter of time, perhaps 20 years or so, until we find ourselves reading about an audit showing mass fraud and waste in our conquest to save Ukraine from their aggressor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">I just hope we don\u2019t do to the Ukrainians what we did to the Afghans, but my gut tells me we will.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Now is the time to support and share the sources you trust.<\/strong><br \/>The Political Insider ranks #3 on <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.feedspot.com\/political_blogs\/\">Feedspot\u2019s<\/a> \u201c100 Best Political Blogs and Websites.\u201d<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone believed that the Republican Party would slow down monetary and military support for Ukraine, I hate to break it to you but they are still very much<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1755231,"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":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1755228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"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\/1755228","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1755228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1755231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}