Over the weekend, the House of Representatives passed four foreign aid bills that will allocate a combined $95 billion to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and other "National security priorities." House Republicans followed Speaker Mike Johnson's lead and joined with Democrats to deliver all the foreign aid President Joe Biden wanted without requiring much of anything in return.
The passage came after House Republicans had handed the president similar victories with Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act reauthorization and government spending.
Every Republican candidate claims to support spending cuts.
Recently, Republicans have had to navigate their base growing more skeptical of Washington's hyperactive foreign policy.
To their credit, some Republicans were serious enough to try to use their small House majority to make as big a dent in the above problems as possible.
In the end, Mike Johnson and the so-called moderate Republicans gave in on all three fronts.
Speaker Mike Johnson and his Republican allies are clearly not those politicians.
https://mises.org/mises-wire/cowardice-not-courage-led-house-republicans-side-democrats
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