MAGA rages over report Pentagon exempting Ukraine from government shutdown

Conservatives genuinely support Russia invading innocent European countries and committing genocide. This is just who conservatives are.

Conservatism is a plague of oppression that is long overdue for a cure. There is no place in a modern civilization for conservatives.

My mom was bitching about this last night…after supporting efforts by the US & NATO when Putin first went in.

Now we need to stop sending money over there, it’s not our responsibility, let Europe deal with it, get rid of NATO, etc etc etc. Apparently if the US stops sending aid, we could feed every hungry child & house every homeless veteran in “our country” and take care of “our people”.

I told her those problems existed before 2022 and we didn’t fix them then, so this doesn’t really affect that now.

“But we could! If we wanted to!”

Well, yeah, that’s the root of the problem - we don’t want to. Ukraine is irrelevant to that argument.

I just figured these were the new MAGA/Fox talking points & changed the subject.

Some argued that the Biden administration was putting the interests of Ukraine ahead of domestic concerns.

Not really, but that would still be better than putting Russia's interests ahead of domestic concerns as the GOP has been doing for quite some time now.

10 years ago if you had pitched this as the story line for a movie: Republicans aiding Russia in invading Europe you would have been, at best, laughed out of the room.

I wonder why they care so much. It's as if someone is telling/paying them all to put the Ukraine support on hold. I wonder who 🤔

Aid for Ukraine is almost entirely flowing through DoD’s budget (DoD sends weapons from storage, then buys new ones - this also helps end-run Dept of State export rules). DoD acquisitions don’t shut down with the rest of the government, they never have. Ergo, military aid to Ukraine will continue unabated through any shutdown.

Anyone in DC who’s surprised by this has no idea how a government shutdown works.

Traitors gonna trait.

all they know is there are vulnerable people, and they need to be able to threaten them in some way, and use them as a hostage

I bet they're ok with getting their own paychecks during shutdown though.

This is because Putty-boo either has compromat, or is bribing the shit out of them. (which is, itself, compromat.)

I laugh every time a MAGA snowflake gets upset. Imagine living your life with two brain cells fighting for third place.

Shite education system rearing its ugly head.

MAGA is a pro-putler cult? I'm SHOCKED!

Seems to me that they should be worried about keeping the lights on.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The Pentagon is reportedly planning to exempt aid to Ukraine from the impact of a potential U.S. government shutdown, sending MAGA Republicans opposed to the assistance into a tizzy.

Former President Donald Trump, who has claimed that he would personally be able to end the Russia-Ukraine war "in 24 hours," has demanded that Republicans "defund all aspects" of the government as the September 30 deadline fast approaches.

Pentagon spokesperson Chris Sherwood told Politico on Thursday that a decision had been made to exempt Ukraine operations during a potential shutdown, just after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Washington, D.C., to make the case for more military aid for his nation's efforts to fend off the Russian invasion.

But the only thing the @JoeBiden administration cares about is funding their proxy war in Ukraine," wrote former Republican Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake.

Department of Defense spokesperson Chris Sherwood said in a statement emailed to Newsweek that Operation Atlantic Resolve, the name given to the mission to aid Ukraine, was exempt from a shutdown because it "is an excepted activity under a government lapse in appropriations."

A group of 29 Republican members of Congress sent a letter to the White House on Thursday, vowing to oppose more aid, calling it "an open-ended commitment to supporting the war in Ukraine of an indeterminate nature."

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I'm just here to document the lemmy tankies once again allying themselves with the far right.

Will the missiles still be raining down or will Russia acknowledge and respect the arcane traditions of the American legislature?

Duh, ah whunt ta uwn da libz. Y cant ah own da libz?

Time for another pentagon accountant oopsie.

It's crazy how absolutely fucking based one simple shape can be.

War is not up for a vote. The war machine will continue to operate regardless of what the House of Representatives does.

Call me old fashioned, but when I run out of money the first expense I cut is "funding my proxy war with Russia". But that's just me.