{"id":2079487,"date":"2023-10-25T19:35:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T23:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-speaker-fight-gaetz-eyes-his-next-takedown-ukraine-aid\/"},"modified":"2023-10-25T19:37:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T23:37:05","slug":"after-speaker-fight-gaetz-eyes-his-next-takedown-ukraine-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-speaker-fight-gaetz-eyes-his-next-takedown-ukraine-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaetz targets Ukraine aid after speaker fight."},"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\">14<\/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%2Fafter-speaker-fight-gaetz-eyes-his-next-takedown-ukraine-aid%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=2079487&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>An Intra-Republican\u2064 Struggle Ends with Rep. Matt\u200d Gaetz Claiming Victory<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe have a speaker [who is] more honest\u200d and more conservative,\u201d Gaetz, the Florida \u200cRepublican \u2062who orchestrated McCarthy\u2019s\u2064 removal, told reporters. &#8220;I think these are the most productive 22 days we&#8217;ve had in the \u200bHouse of Representatives because we were\u2062 able to vanquish the\u2062 lobbyist\u2063 vessel\u200b formerly known\u2063 as Speaker McCarthy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>House Elects Mike Johnson as \u200bSpeaker After Three Weeks at an Impasse<\/h3>\n<p>McCarthy \u200chas been replaced by \u200dthe\u2063 chairman of the \u200bRepublican Study Committee, a fourth-term Louisiana Republican who succeeded where three previous nominees had failed because \u201cno one\u200c hates him enough to stop \u200chim,\u201d as one senior House Republican aide put it. And that grueling process has Gaetz,\u200b an arch-opponent of U.S. aid to Ukraine, \u200daiming for\u200b another victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA majority \u200cof\u200c Republicans are against sending\u2064 more money to Ukraine in the House \u200dof Representatives,\u201d Gaetz said, referring to the \u2063117 Republicans who voted against a bill \u2062to\u2063 provide $300 \u200bmillion \u2064worth \u2064of assistance. \u201cAnd\u200d we have something called the Hastert Rule that would prohibit any speaker \u200dfrom bringing legislation to the\u200d floor that \u200bdoesn&#8217;t have the\u2062 support of the majority of \u200dthe\u200b majority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That legislation garnered 311 votes in the House, nonetheless.\u2062 And another amendment to prohibit all\u2064 aid to \u2064Ukraine, offered by\u2063 Gaetz the same week, drew even\u2062 less\u200c House Republican support when it failed on a 339-93 \u200dvote. One of those votes in favor of Gaetz\u2019s ban came from\u2062 Johnson, however.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there&#8217;s a clear majority, in the\u2063 House of Representatives, \u200bwho are in favor of protecting\u200c our interests in Ukraine and \u200cmeeting our treaty obligations [and] \u200ddevastating Russian military \u2062might,\u201d Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), \u2064the \u2064top Republican on the Armed Services Committee, which\u200b oversees the Pentagon and \u2063U.S. military activities, told\u200d the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson has a \u2064mixed record \u200don\u200d military aid \u2062for Ukraine. Less than \u2064two months after\u2063 Russian President\u200c Vladimir Putin launched his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/6-major-things-biden-failed-to-address-in-his-speech-to-congress\/\" title=\"6 Major Things Biden Failed To Address In His Speech To Congress\">full-scale invasion<\/a>,\u2063 Johnson voted \u2064for a \u201clend-lease\u201d program to arm Ukraine, \u2064a law named for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt\u2019s plan to make \u200cthe United States the \u201carsenal of democracy\u201d against\u200d Nazi \u2064Germany.\u200d He voted\u200d against an aid bill for Ukraine the following month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should not be sending\u200c another $40 billion abroad when our own \u200bborder is in \u200dchaos, American\u200b mothers are\u200b struggling to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-am-deeply-concerned-romney-letter-questions-fda-on-nationwide-baby-formula-shortage\/\" title=\"\u2018I Am Deeply Concerned\u2019: Romney Letter Questions FDA On Nationwide Baby Formula Shortage\">find baby formula<\/a>, \u200dgas\u2063 prices are \u2064at record highs, and\u2064 American families are struggling to make ends meet without sufficient oversight over where the money will\u200d go,\u201d Johnson\u200c said at \u200bthe time.<\/p>\n<p>The extent to which\u200d Johnson intends \u200bto \u201cimpose his policy preferences on the conference,\u201d as the \u2064senior Republican aide put\u200c it,\u2063 isn\u2019t clear yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat \u200dremains to be seen,\u201d Wicker\u200c said. \u201cThe speaker is, obviously, a very powerful position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republican \u2064proponents of aid for Ukraine are holding \u2064out\u2062 hope that he will approach those issues differently now that he has \u2063responsibility for the outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a \u2063different role than being a member, even conference \u200cchair,\u201d said Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee\u2063 and \u200dthe Foreign Relations Committee. \u201cI would imagine if he&#8217;s been against it in the past, it&#8217;s \u2062probably \u2062not a good \u200csign, but he will\u200b also have more influence over what\u2062 the aid looks like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last\u200d week, President Joe Biden requested $100 billion of supplemental \u200dfunding for various military priorities, including $60 billion worth of aid for Ukraine and another $14 billion to assist Israel in the wake of\u2062 the terrorist attacks that ignited a war against Hamas. Biden\u2019s team, in \u200can implicit response to\u2063 Ukraine \u2064aid skeptics,\u2064 emphasized that much of\u2064 the money would be \u2063spent in the \u200bUnited\u200d States.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This supplemental request invests over $50 billion in the \u200cAmerican \u200cdefense industrial base, ensuring our military continues to be the most ready, capable and best-equipped\u200d fighting force \u2062the\u200b world has ever seen,&#8221;\u2064 White House Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young wrote \u2064in a\u200c letter to the House. &#8220;The funding will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-set-to-back-multiyear-weapons-purchases\/\" title=\"Congress Set to Back Multiyear Weapons Purchases\">expand production lines<\/a>, strengthen the American economy, keep us safe and create new American jobs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A funding bill \u200dthat combines those issues might pass more \u200ccomfortably by giving \u200blawmakers a justification for backing the overall\u200c legislation even if\u2062 a particular provision is unpopular. Gaetz hopes to break the supplemental legislation into \u201csingle-subject bills.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI view the Israel conflict\u2064 and\u2062 the Ukraine\u2063 conflict\u2064 as very distinct,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I think\u2063 that they both deserve their own dignity and\u2062 their \u200bown \u2064consideration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wicker \u200bstruck \u200da \u201crelatively\u201d optimistic note. \u201cI am relatively certain that when \u2062it&#8217;s all said\u2064 and done, there will\u200b be a\u2064 supplemental that contains support\u200c for Israel, the Indo-Pacific, border, \u2063and Ukraine,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz, \u200btoo, was optimistic.\u2062 &#8220;I\u200d expect [Ukraine] \u200b to \u200cbe \u200dless of a priority than\u200d Israel because in\u2062 Speaker Johnson&#8217;s remarks \u200cboth last night and today, he mentioned Israel\u200b and not Ukraine,&#8221; he \u200bsaid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house-elects-mike-johnson-as-speaker-after-three-weeks-at-an-impasse\">CLICK \u200dHERE TO READ \u2063MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How \u2064did Rep. Matt Gaetz orchestrate the removal of Kevin McCarthy as \u2064Speaker and what\u2063 were his reasons for doing so?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  R\u200d\u200d\u200dr \u200cthe\u200c\u200c direction \u200d\u200dof\u200c\u200c \u200bRepublican policies as \u200cthe Speaker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u2064struggle within the Republican Party to elect a\u2062 new Speaker of the House has finally come to an end, with Rep. Matt Gaetz claiming victory. Gaetz, \u200ba Florida Republican known for \u2062his conservative stance and \u2064opposition to\u200c U.S. aid to Ukraine, orchestrated the removal of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker, claiming that \u2063McCarthy was not honest or conservative enough.<\/p>\n<p>Taking the reins as the new Speaker is \u200bMike Johnson, the chairman \u200bof the \u200dRepublican Study Committee and a fourth-term Louisiana Republican. Johnson succeeded where\u200b his three predecessors \u2064failed, \u2062as he did not face strong opposition from within the party. As one senior House\u2062 Republican aide explained,\u200d \u201cno one hates\u200c him enough to stop him.\u201d However, Gaetz&#8217;s\u200b quest for victory does not end here.<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz argued that a majority of Republicans in the \u2064House are against\u2062 providing more money to\u200b Ukraine, citing the 117 Republicans who voted \u2062against a bill for $300 million worth\u200d of assistance. He referred to the Hastert Rule, stating that any \u2063speaker\u2062 should not bring legislation to \u2062the floor if it lacks the support of the majority of the\u2064 majority. Despite his arguments, the\u200d bill still passed with 311 votes in the House.<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz also introduced an amendment to prohibit all \u200baid to Ukraine, which received even \u200cless support from House Republicans, with \u2064a vote of 339-93 against it. Interestingly, Johnson, \u2064the \u2064newly elected Speaker, voted in favor \u200dof Gaetz\u2019s ban. Senator Roger Wicker, the top Republican \u200don the \u2063Armed Services Committee, expressed\u2064 support for aid to Ukraine,\u200d emphasizing the importance of protecting American interests and devastating Russian military might.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, however,\u2064 has a\u2062 mixed record when it \u2064comes to military \u2064aid for Ukraine. He \u200dinitially voted in favor of a \u201clend-lease\u201d program to arm Ukraine,\u200d but \u2063subsequently voted against an aid bill\u2062 for the country. Johnson argued at the time that the focus \u200bshould be \u2064on addressing issues within\u200b the \u200cUnited States, such as border security and struggling American families.<\/p>\n<p>The intentions \u2063and policy preferences of the new Speaker, Johnson, remain uncertain. According to a senior Republican\u200b aide, it is\u200b yet to be seen how he will approach and influence Republican policies as Speaker, considering the power associated \u2063with the position. Republican proponents of aid for Ukraine hope that Johnson&#8217;s new responsibility will lead him to view these \u200dissues differently\u2064 and \u2063take decisive action.<\/p>\n<p>As Senator \u2063Marco Rubio, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Foreign Relations Committee,\u2064 pointed out, being Speaker of the House is a different \u200brole altogether, with more influence over the direction of Republican policies. \u200cWhile\u200b it remains \u200cto be seen\u2064 how\u200b Johnson will handle these \u200dissues, the\u2064 intra-Republican struggle has reached a conclusion, and it\u200b is now up\u200b to the new Speaker to steer the\u200d party in a direction that aligns with its priorities and values.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>important qualities for a speaker.&#8221; Gaetz&#8217;s successful efforts to replace McCarthy with a more conservative and honest speaker have been hailed as a triumph within the Republican party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2079488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"class_list":["post-2079487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/2079487","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=2079487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2079488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2079487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2079487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2079487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}