Just four days out from a government shutdown, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has declared a bipartisan Senate stopgap measure dead on arrival.

Senators, having apparently lost faith in McCarthy’s ability to stave off a shutdown, negotiated a bill late Tuesday night that funds the government until Nov. 17 and includes $12 billion in aid and disaster relief for Ukraine. It’s expected to be voted on by the end of the week before being sent over to the House, and is intended to buy lawmakers more time to hash out a longer-term deal, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said.

But, according to Punchbowl News, McCarthy said in a closed-door meeting on Wednesday morning that he wouldn’t take up a bill that includes Ukraine funding but no border security measures. “I don’t see the support in the House,” he reportedly said.

Aid for Ukraine has been one of several sticking points for ultraconservative hardliners in the House who have repeatedly sabotaged McCarthy’s efforts to get spending bills passed.

  • @madcaesar@lemmy.world
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    81 year ago

    I’m sorry, but I have zero sympathy for military service members.

    The GOP has repeatedly spat in their face and they continue to vote for them in overwhelming fassion, because “macho” or some bullshit.

    Other federal workers I do feel bad for.

    Fuck the GOP.

    • I have zero sympathy for military service members

      Who are disproportionately poor and POC (especially women) while also being very young. I don’t think you realize how much these people are sociopathically targeted by scumbag military recruiters.

    • BeautifulMind ♾️
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      101 year ago

      The Military doesn’t uniformly vote right- it’s just the senior/ranking/whiter folks that tend to do that. The noncoms (who tend to be young, brown) tend to vote in line with their civilian cohorts.

      In other words, the military are politically representative of/in line with their civilian peers, politically

    • @dangblingus@lemmy.world
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      81 year ago

      Gonna need a source that says that an overwhelming majority of service members vote R.

      Obviously some of them do, but an overwhelming majority?

    • @ZK686@lemmy.world
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      11 year ago

      Because when Republicans are in power, military make more. Ask any active military member, and they’ll tell you they always make more money when a Republican President is in power.

    • @guacupado@lemmy.world
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      11 year ago

      Why other federal workers? I know several who vote red, too. In fact, the majority I know do, which boggles my mind. It’s especially funny to see my old squaddies who stayed in for the retirement and want to complain about socialism.