A year after the conflict began, the consensus against Russian aggression has held but alarm bells are ringing in Congress
Freedom Caucus faction members Matt Gaetz, Andrew Clyde, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie announcing a resolution calling for an audit of US spending on Ukraine in November.Freedom Caucus faction members Matt Gaetz, Andrew Clyde, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie announcing a resolution calling for an audit of US spending on Ukraine in November.Last modified on Fri 17 Feb 2023 05.
Two weeks before the first anniversary of the full-scale invasion on 24 February, a group of Trump-supportingled by Matt Gaetz introduced a “Ukraine fatigue” resolution that, if passed, would “express through the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States must end its military and financial aid to Ukraine, and urges all combatants to reach a peace agreement”.
The influence of this faction is heightened by the fact that the Republicans have a slim nine-seat majority in the House, and the new speaker, Kevin McCarthy, onlyamong Republican members, during which he gave promises to listen to the concerns of hard-right holdouts like Gaetz. European diplomats have been lobbying Republicans, underlining the importance of maintaining western solidarity in the face of Russian aggression and arguing that support for Ukraine is an extremely inexpensive way to degrade the military of a hostile power seen by the Pentagon as an “acute threat”.
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