House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said he plans to strip funding to train Ukrainian troops from the Pentagon funding bill just one day after meeting with Ukraine’s leader.
McCarthy’s move was an effort to gather votes after facing two failures on the vote to advance the defense bill.
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The $300 million for Ukraine’s aid will be voted on separately and is likely to pass.
“I just voted NO to the rule for the Defense bill because they refused to take the war money for Ukraine out and put it in a separate bill,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene posted on X.
Anti-Ukraine sentiments have grown among GOP lawmakers including McCarthy who refused to direct further funding to aid the country in its war with Russia.
