{"id":613508,"date":"2026-06-05T11:37:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T11:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=613508"},"modified":"2026-06-05T11:37:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T11:37:37","slug":"18-house-republicans-buck-gop-party-leadership-to-fund-ukraine-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=613508","title":{"rendered":"18 House Republicans buck GOP party leadership to fund Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eighteen House Republicans defied party leadership by voting with Democrats on Thursday to approve another Ukraine aid bill.<\/p>\n

Passed by a 296-195 vote, the Ukraine aid bill would \u201cprovide $1.3 billion in security assistance to Ukraine, authorize $8 billion in arms sales, and extend a Biden-era military lend-lease program\u201d if signed into law by President Donald Trump, according to Time<\/a> magazine.<\/p>\n

It\u2019d also impose new oil and gas sanctions against Russia at a time when U.S. gas prices are through the roof because of the Iran War.<\/p>\n

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The Ukraine Support Act (H.R. 2913) HAS PASSED \u2014 226 in favor, 195 against. 18 republicans supported the bill!<\/p>\n

The bill received more than the simple majority required for passage in the House. pic.twitter.com\/9WH6LDFmum<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Kateryna Lisunova (@KaterynaLis) June 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

According to CNN<\/a>, House Speaker Mike Johnson \u201curged his members to oppose the measure\u201d during a closed-door Wednesday meeting, arguing that they needed to give the president enough space to negotiate with Russia.<\/p>\n

And according to The Hill<\/a>, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise maintained that the bill \u201cignores really constructive bipartisan negotiations going on right now to put tougher sanctions on Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a formal statement to Fox News<\/a>, the White House mentioned some of these same concerns.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bill seeks to tie the President\u2019s hands by mandating a wide-ranging U.S. response to the Russia-Ukraine war while adding hundreds of millions in unfunded authorizations,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n

The White House also warned that the bill\u2019s mandatory sanctions against Russia would \u201cplunge the global economy into chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite this, the 18 Republicans who voted with Democrats would like the public to believe they didn\u2019t just defy the president.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump has been the leader to support the people of Ukraine, and so I\u2019ll be voting for the people of Ukraine, continuing the Trump tradition of support,\u201d Rep. Joe Wilson told Fox News.<\/p>\n

When asked about the GOP leadership\u2019s opposition to the bill, Wilson said, \u201cPutin needs to know that the American people stand with the brave and courageous people of Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilson is the same Republican who famously yelled \u201cyou lie\u201d during then-President Barack Hussein Obama\u2019s 2009 address to Congress.<\/p>\n

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Ol Joe Wilson went from \u201cYou Lie!\u201d
\nto yes I\u2019ll Buy, More War for the Military Industrial Complex.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Rob Dew (@DewsNewz) June 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Rep. Don Bacon also defended his yes vote.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is our Churchill moment or our Chamberlain moment,\u201d he said. \u201cBy God, I want to choose Churchill, and this House better choose Churchill.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, some of the Republicans who voted against the bill suggested to Fox News that they still support Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis bill is not about helping Ukraine. This is not about standing up to Vladimir Putin,\u201d Rep. Randy Fine said. \u201cThis is about engaging in Trump Derangement Syndrome as President Trump tries to bring this [conflict] in for a landing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, who also voted against the bill, argued that it was poorly drafted, pointing to a provision that calls on NATO countries to up their defense spending to two percent of their economic output. The problem, he noted was that the president already secured a five percent commitment from them last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis bill literally moves us backwards, and a decrease of NATO defense member spending would be the result,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Rep. Keith Self, another opponent, made the case that the bill would tie the president\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s increasingly obvious that this [war] will end, and when it ends, it will be through negotiation,\u201d he said. \u201cIf you support this bill, then clearly you are not interested in peace, because the consequences would tie the hands of this president and could lead to future hostilities that would bleed over into Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democrats, for their part, celebrated the 18 turncoat Republicans siding with them.<\/p>\n

\u201cDemocrats have repeatedly governed in the minority as if we were in the majority, and we\u2019re going to do so again this week,\u201d House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said on Tuesday, mocking his GOP counterparts.<\/p>\n

The bill passed Thursday marked the first Ukraine aid bill to be passed by the House since President Trump assumed office in 2025.<\/p>\n

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Eighteen House Republicans defied party leadership by voting with Democrats on Thursday to approve another Ukraine aid bill. Passed by a 296-195 vote, the Ukraine aid bill would \u201cprovide $1.3 billion in security assistance to Ukraine, authorize $8 billion in arms sales, and extend a Biden-era military lend-lease program\u201d if signed into law by President… Continue reading 18 House Republicans buck GOP party leadership to fund Ukraine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":613490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=613508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/613490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=613508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=613508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=613508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}