• halfempty@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I don’t understand why a democrat would do this. I would have expected one of the extreme right Republicans to have tried to stop the vote, not a Dem. The bill was strongly supported by the Dems.

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      No it wasn’t. After all the GOP’s bullshit, the vote came down to “These Socialists chose funding Ukraine over paying hard working govt employees” and were forced to sign off on a budget that removed all support to Ukraine.

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        So you think that this Democratic guy pulled the fire alarm because he supported Ukraine funding? That doesn’t seem super plausible. Don’t get me wrong. I really support Ukraine funding. But I didn’t think it was a deal killer for the democrats.