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US: House Democrats formally file discharge petition to force vote on Senate Ukraine aid package (www.cbsnews.com)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/house-discharge-petition-ukraine-israel-aid/

The Democratic discharge petition would require 218 signatures to force a vote on the aid package on the House floor.

This means that the Democrats would need some number of Republicans to sign the petition, because they will lose some of their own votes because the Senate aid package includes aid to Israel.

Republican bastards have filed a competing discharge petition without humanitarian aid, that even if passed would delay aid by weeks or months if it passes.

I suspect that the Republican measure contains Lizard People aid.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why is it that that aid for different countries and different causes, with different political interests, are all bundled into the same bill? Why can't aid for each destination have its own individual bill? I've never seen any media present this question nor make any attempt at explaining why.

[–] Eatspancakes84 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

To increase support obviously. The theory is that GOP representatives will vote for this bill saying they helped Israel, whereas Dems can say they are helping Ukraine (of course there are also local issues in e.g. districts with many Jewish voters). The 2-party system in combination with local representation means that bundling bills is the only way to ever pass anything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

bundling bills is the only way to ever pass anything

That seems like a bit of a stretch. There seems to be very strong cross-party support for Ukraine aid. I don't see why that wouldn't pass in its own individual bill.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Yeah I'm sure the past several months of the Republicans refusing to support aid to Ukraine shows their strong support for sending aid to Ukraine.

This is being done in this Mannar because Republicans refuse to aid Ukraine without some kind of kickback

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

@Strykker @rah
Trump and Putin have come to agreements on a range of issues.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Republicans refusing to support aid to Ukraine

As I understand it, Republicans as a whole have not been refusing to support Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sure sure just 90+ % of them, that makes it totally cool...