Marjorie Taylor Greene leads Maga fury over crucial spending bill
www.independent.co.uk
Right-wing Georgia Republican insists she opposes continuing resolution because she does not want to fund the defence of Ukraine

Right-wing Georgia Republican insists she opposes continuing resolution because she does not want to fund the defence of Ukraine

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene was furious on Thursday after Congress passed a bill that will prevent a partial government shutdown.

Ms Greene told The Independent that she opposed enacting a continuing resolution — necessary to avoid this weekend’s deadline to have budgets in place — based on her opposition to US funding for Ukraine in its defence against Russia.

The Democratic-led Senate voted 77-18, and the Republican-led House followed suit, voting 314-108, in favour of the bill.

“I’m voting no to this funding bill, absolutely. I’m not going to vote for the CR,” she said.

She then claimed the war in Ukraine was “pretty much over.”

  • FaceDeer@kbin.social
    51·
    10 months ago

    Ah, Republicans. Well known to be super concerned about spending too much on the military.

    My hope is that the funding goes through, and then the Republicans immediately vote Johnson out of his leadership role so we can have another wonderful round of Republican autophagy as they fight over who next to put on the throne.

      • Deceptichum@kbin.social
        16·
        10 months ago

        Autophagy (or autophagocytosis; from the Ancient Greek αὐτόφαγος, autóphagos, meaning “self-devouring”[1] and κύτος, kýtos, meaning “hollow”)[2] is the natural, conserved degradation of the cell that removes unnecessary or dysfunctional components through a lysosome-dependent regulated mechanism.

        Ah yes, a word I’m sure to get frequent use out of.