Congressman Mike Quigley: US Govt compromise deal “a victory for Putin and Putin sympathisers everywhere.”

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Congressman Mike Quigley: US Govt compromise deal “a victory for Putin and Putin sympathisers everywhere.”

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Monday, 02 October 2023 11:52

Congressman Mike Quigley: US Govt compromise deal “a victory for Putin and Putin sympathisers everywhere.”

“The Republican Party has become the party of appeasers, pro-Putin folks,” warned Congressman Mike Quigley before the vote that was to avoid a shut-down of the US government.

Congress narrowly averted a government shutdown late on Saturday as the House, in a stunning turnabout, approved a stop-gap plan to keep the federal government open until mid-November. President Joe Biden signed the bill shortly before midnight.

The deal was a blow to Donald Trump’s right-wing Republicans who held up negotiations with demands for spending cuts and no new aid for Ukraine, which have partly, if only temporarily, acheived.

Whilst the White House and members of both parties in the Senate supported funding for Ukraine, they saw the deal as the most expedient way to avoid a government shutdown, the outcome that the MAGA Republicans sought.

“The fight in Ukraine is our fight and anyone who tries to argue that a choice must be made between Ukraine and the American people is presenting a false dilemma. Protecting Ukraine is in our national interest,” – Democrat Congressman Mike Quigley of Illinois.