The Washington Post on Monday reported that the US may reduce or stop aid to Kiev altogether if Republican Party representatives succeed in the November 8 midterm elections to Congress.
The newspaper quoted Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, who said that under the Republicans not another penny will go to the Ukraine. Her party is poised to make significant gains in Tuesday’s midterm elections and possibly revamp the United States’ whole approach to supporting Ukraine’s resistance, the article said.
According to its estimates, Kiev should not count on support either, considering that Congress has already greenlit up to $60 billion in aid and Kyiv is persistently asking the West to increase the amount of aid. On the eve of the election, various candidates and legislators from the Republican Party pointed out that the funding should be stopped.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says ‘under Republicans, not another penny will go to Ukraine’
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), one of the speakers at President Donald Trump’s rally in Des Moines, Iowa, said that if Republicans win control of Congress next week, they will use their power of the purse to cut off military aid to Ukraine. “Under Republicans, not another penny will go to Ukraine,” she said, to cheers from the crowd.
“The only border they care about is Ukraine, not America’s southern border,” Greene said of Democrats at a Trump rally in Sioux City, Iowa. “Under Republicans, not another penny will go to Ukraine. Our country comes first. They don’t care about our border or our people.”
There is broad bipartisan support for arming Ukraine but a faction of Republicans oppose such aid. And “Portman, who is retiring, may be replaced by Republican candidate JD Vance, who opposes continued aid to Ukraine,” Fox News reports.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has said a GOP House won’t give Ukraine a “blank check.”
House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy warned that Republicans will not write a “blank check” for Ukraine if they win back the House majority, reflecting his party’s growing skepticism about financial support for Kyiv as it battles Russia’s invasion.
“I think people are gonna be sitting in a recession and they’re not going to write a blank check to Ukraine,” McCarthy told Punchbowl News. “They just won’t do it. … It’s not a free blank check.”