{"id":1922478,"date":"2023-05-02T01:57:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T05:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-shoots-down-russian-reporter-who-says-he-opposes-aid-to-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2023-05-02T02:00:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T06:00:09","slug":"mccarthy-shoots-down-russian-reporter-who-says-he-opposes-aid-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-shoots-down-russian-reporter-who-says-he-opposes-aid-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy shoots down Russian reporter who says he opposes aid to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fmccarthy-shoots-down-russian-reporter-who-says-he-opposes-aid-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=1922478&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--><h2>House Speaker Kevin McCarthy Supports Aid to Ukraine<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p>House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) made it clear that he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-visit-kyiv-vow-there-is-strong-bipartisan-support-to-give-ukraine-everything-it-needs\/\" title=\"House Republicans Visit Kyiv, Vow There is \u201cStrong Bipartisan Support to Give Ukraine Everything It Needs\u201d\">supports aid<\/a> to Ukraine and will continue to do so. He made this statement in response to a Russian reporter&#8217;s question at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-live-trump-campaign-holds-press-conference-to-outline-viable-path-to-victory\/\" title=\"Watch Live: Trump Campaign Holds Press Conference to Outline 'Viable Path to Victory'\">news conference<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I vote for aid to Ukraine. I support aid to Ukraine,&#8221; McCarthy said at a news conference following his speech to the Knesset, Israel&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/history-repeats-itself-democrats-are-using-tactics-of-the-marxists-of-1917-in-russia-to-steal-2020-election\/\" title=\"History Repeats Itself: Democrats Are Using Tactics of the Marxists of 1917 in Russia to Steal 2020 Election\">legislative body<\/a>. &#8220;I do not support what your country has done to Ukraine. I do not support your killing of the children either.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The United States has provided aid to Ukraine since Russia first invaded the country in February 2022. McCarthy has previously stated that he does not support a &#8220;blank check&#8221; to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<h3>McCarthy Rejects Russian Reporter&#8217;s Characterization of His Stance<\/h3>\n<p>The reporter, from Russian state-owned media outlet RIA Novosti, started his question by saying he knows McCarthy doesn&#8217;t &#8220;support the current unlimited and uncontrolled supply of weaponry and aid to Ukraine&#8221; and asked the speaker if it is &#8220;possible in the near future the U.S. policy regarding sending weaponry to Ukraine will change?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy rejected the reporter&#8217;s characterization of his stance and said he believes Russia &#8220;should pull out&#8221; of Ukraine and doesn&#8217;t think Russia&#8217;s invasion of the country is legitimate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will continue to support because the rest of the world sees it just as it is,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<h3>Republican Caucus Members Call for Curbing Aid to Ukraine<\/h3>\n<p>Members of McCarthy&#8217;s Republican caucus, including Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), have called on President Joe Biden to curb sending U.S. aid to Ukraine. In a letter in April, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trees-are-now-racist-portland-school-delays-vote-on-evergreen-mascot-over-fears-people-may-link-it-to-lynching\/\" title=\"Trees Are Now Racist: Portland School Delays Vote On \u2018Evergreen\u2019 Mascot Over Fears People May Link It To Lynching\">members expressed concern<\/a> that &#8220;the trajectory of U.S. aid to the Ukrainian war effort threatens further escalation and lacks much<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-shoots-down-russian-reporter-who-says-he-opposes-aid-to-ukraine\/\" title=\"McCarthy shoots down Russian reporter who says he opposes aid to Ukraine\">-needed strategic clarity<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) made it crystal clear that he&#8217;s got Ukraine&#8217;s back! When a pesky Russian reporter tried to stir up trouble at a news conference on Monday, McCarthy shut them down with his unwavering support for aid to Ukraine. &#8220;I don&#8217;t just vote for aid to Ukraine, I wholeheartedly support it,&#8221; he declared at the presser, which followed his inspiring speech to the Knesset, Israel&#8217;s legislative body. Way to go, McCarthy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1922479,"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":[538],"tags":[7629,3663,14777,5046,3965,8510,6991],"class_list":["post-1922478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-aid","tag-mccarthy","tag-opposes","tag-reporter","tag-russian","tag-shoots","tag-ukraine"],"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\/1922478","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=1922478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1922479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}