McCarthy signals Republican weariness over aid to Ukraine

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published 18 October 2022

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has suggested the days of Ukraine aid could come to an end should Republicans regain the lower chamber in the upcoming midterm elections, political newsletter Punchbowl News reports Tuesday.

Though previous funding for the beseiged country has cleared Congress with large bipartisan majorities and relative ease, "that consensus may be fraying," Punchbowl writes.

"I think people are gonna be sitting in a recession and they're not going to write a blank check to Ukraine. They just won't do it. … It's not a free blank check," McCarthy recently told the newsletter. "And then there's the things [the Biden administration] is not doing domestically. Not doing the border and people begin to weigh that. Ukraine is important, but at the same time it can't be the only thing they do and it can't be a blank check."

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Brigid Kennedy worked at The Week from 2021 to 2023 as a staff writer, junior editor and then story editor, with an interest in U.S. politics, the economy and the music industry.

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