The Chachi Arcola of the House, Florida Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz is now accusing Speaker pro tem Kevin McCarthy of having a secret-squirrel agreement with Democrats to fund the defense of Ukraine after Democrats passed the continuing resolution to keep the government open, the Washington Post reports.
It’s not out of the possibility that Gaetz is right: a desperate McCarthy, needing to pass this legislation to try to salvage any legitimacy of his leadership, may have approached Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries with a plan to pass a CR with Ukraine funding to secure some GOP votes, but then McCarthy would allow a separate bill to fund Ukraine that would get different Republicans to join Democrats to pass it. A Ukraine funding bill would find little difficulty passing the Senate.