House Republican says he won't accept a border deal because it may help Biden politically
"Let me tell you, I'm not willing to do too damn much right now to help a Democrat and to help Joe Biden's approval rating," Republican Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas told CNN this week. "I will not help the Democrats try to improve this man's dismal approval ratings. I'm not going to do it. Why would I?"
Troy Nehls is the rep who, during the most recent speaker votes, explicitly said that his number one priority in every decision he makes is helping Trump get back in the White House.
They're literally saying we can't fund Ukraine help because it'd be better spent here, but when it's time to vote on funding more border security they all reject it. Republicans can entirely go fuck themselves!!!! What's worse is how they keep getting away with it never facing any pushback from media who just both-sides everything, framing everything as a loss for Biden.
"Today is Biden's birthday, here's how that's a bad thing"
The almost outrageous thing about that argument is the vast majority we are spending on Ukraine is spent domestically on arms and support systems manufactured right here in the good old USA
I live in such a federally funded boom town. Yet the town remains overwhelmingly conservative and opposed to the hand that is literally feeding us.
It’s such an unbelievably disingenuous argument. But hey it goes down easy and don’t come up hard
Exactly. The other great thing about it is we get (or got by now) to decommission all this old equipment by sending it to Ukraine instead of going through the very expensive decommissioning process, saving money while helping them out.
Not only that but by fighting Russia by proxy, we'll eventually see Russia's collapse w/o sending any troops.
I've heard some military higher-ups estimates that we're getting at least 10x our money back by supporting Ukraine this way, as it'll pay off hugely years down the line.
Stupid Repubs only think about themselves and the now, never the future. Myopic cruel assholes.
If something is good for the country, of course it will benefit the party currently in the White House.
You might even think it would benefit the party currently in control of the House of Representatives, too.
Winning is clearly less important than making sure that Democrats, and especially Biden, lose.
House GOP is obstructing progress at the border by blocking staffing surge, White House says
Administration officials are ramping up the rhetoric as dozens of House Republicans on Wednesday traveled to Texas to visit the border to highlight what they see as President Biden’s failings. The comments, which called out House leaders for blocking consideration of emergency funding that would provide for the hiring of thousands of federal border and immigration personnel, also came ahead of the start of impeachment hearings into Homeland Security Department Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, which lawmakers announced on Wednesday would proceed next week.
The GOP doesn’t have an interest in solving problems, they just want to complain about them.
Creating a crisis (or adding to one) during Democratic administrations has been GOP policy for decades. They then run on that increased crisis in elections to fool voters who haven't been properly informed by the media what the GOP has been doing.
Nice to see the White House calling this out but for fuck's sake the media should have been reporting on this for the past year.
While Abbot's goons are kidnapping people, putting them on busses, with lies about their destination, and then trafficking them to northern blue cities as a cheap political stunt that literally everyone can see right through.
Republicans don’t want a solution, they want something to blame on democrats
