The U.S. House of Representatives moved one step closer to voting on a series of foreign aid bills that have been strongly opposed by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and other MAGA lawmakers, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said other Republicans are growing tired of their antics.
The House Rules Committee got enough Democratic support to advance the funding bills, which includes additional aid to Ukraine, in the face of a motion to vacate against speaker Mike Johnson filed by Greene and supported by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), and the "Morning Joe" host compared the dynamic to his own time as a congressman.
"We were constantly pushing against [former House speaker] Newt Gingrich to get more, get more, get more when we were trying to get the budget balanced," Scarborough said. "You can push to a certain degree, and, at some point, you blow up the legislative process enough to get what you want, [but] everybody turns against you. I think that's what we're seeing here. There are a lot of people that have just had enough at the couple of back benchers that are controlling what they do when it comes to Ukraine funding. It looks like the speaker, who certainly should be applauded, I will say, for what he's now saying about Ukraine, what he's now saying about the United States' role in the world, something that Joe Biden has been saying for a really long time. I'm glad he's saying it."
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"I'm also glad that we're getting to a point where a lot of these back benchers, you know, what they're doing is going to amount to sound and fury signifying nothing," Scarborough added. "They're going to get rolled."
Greene and other GOP hardliners insisted that Ukraine aid be tied to funding for U.S. border security, but Scarborough noted that House Republicans had killed a Senate bipartisan border security bill because Donald Trump had opposed it.
"You have Republicans that have stepped in the way of getting anything done," Scarborough said. "The strongest words to use against the Republican House right now, come from Republicans in the House. [Rep.] Chip Roy's quote some time back saying that the House Republicans have done absolutely nothing, absolutely nothing – name anything that they've done. You have [Sen.] James Lankford saying that Donald Trump and Republicans killed the toughest border security bill ever. Then you've got the head of the Republican Intel Committee in the House saying that Republicans in the House are spewing Vladimir Putin's and Russian talking points. I mean, their own words are devastating against them."Watch the video below or at this link.
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