Zeeshan Aleem: Zelenskyy gave a great speech in front of Congress, but it may very well have been for nothing.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy met privately with Zelenskyy before his address to Congress, and afterward described Zelenskyy’s speech as “very good.” But he alsohe made this fall: “My position has never changed. I support Ukraine but I never support a blank check.”
It’s unclear what exactly an audit would entail, or what dampened enthusiasm for aid to Ukraine would look like. Theoretically, Republican concerns could mean smaller total amounts of aid, slower approval of aid, restrictions on the kind of weapons being sent over, or ending certain kinds of aid altogether.
What we do know is that the MAGA faction of the GOP has McCarthy’s ear as he scrambles to secure the votes he needs to become speaker of the House. With a narrow Republican majority, McCarthy cannot afford more than four defections within his caucus, and it’s plausible thatof Georgia have involved agreements to change Ukraine aid policy in some fashion.
McCarthy will also face pressure from influential right-wing nationalists like Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who called Congress praising Zelenskyy and considering giving him more aidZelenskyy's speech in Congress was at least in part a bid to win over Republicans who might be on the fence about sending more aid to his country. But from the looks of it, he did little to blunt the right’s increasing skepticism of involvement in foreign conflicts.
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