House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Biden are facing a barrage of questions about whether they made a secret side deal on Ukraine funding, after McCarthy headed off a government shutdown by dropping the funding from a last-minute, short-term spending bill over the weekend. The measure passed the House with the support of all the Democrats except one, and lost the votes of 90 Republicans.
Rep. Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida, who says he plans to file a motion to oust McCarthy as speaker within days, spoke on the House floor Monday, demanding to know “what was the secret side deal on Ukraine?”
He accused McCarthy of “cutting a side deal to bring Ukraine legislation” to the floor in a vote separate from the short-term spending bill.
The president himself certainly fueled the idea, when CBS News asked him on Sunday, “Are you going to be able to trust Speaker McCarthy when the next deal comes around?”
“We just made one about Ukraine,” he replied. “So, we’ll find out.”
For now, House GOP leadership deny there’s a deal. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mccarthy-allies-deny-existence-of-ukraine-back-deal/ar-AA1hAN2w
I really don’t understand how people can say Biden has dementia when he’s making moves like this, making a deal with McCarthy about Ukraine and then telling the press so now everyone knows. Meanwhile trump is standing up in court and shouting nonsense to a judge that will be deciding the outcome of his case.