{"id":24161,"date":"2024-02-26T02:18:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T08:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=24161"},"modified":"2024-02-26T02:18:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T08:18:47","slug":"clyburn-gives-gop-a-new-nickname-groupies-of-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=24161","title":{"rendered":"Clyburn gives GOP a new nickname: \u2018Groupies of Putin\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

House Minority Whip Jim Clyburn\u2002<\/u><\/a>(D-S.C.) went after Republicans Saturday, branding the GOP with a new nickname: \u201cGroupies of Putin.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clyburn, who announced he would step down from leadership in 2024, argued Speaker Mike Johnson\u2002<\/u><\/a>(R-La.) and his other GOP colleagues have only been doing the business of Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2002<\/u><\/a>\u201cat the behest of the former president.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think the American people are beginning to see that Johnson is a part of what I call \u2018Groupies of Putin,\u2019\u201d Clyburn said<\/u><\/a> Saturday on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cThe Weekend.\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s what GOP stands for now, \u2018Groupies of Putin.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe American people will see through that,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd we Democrats are going to do what we can to make sure that it\u2019s front and center.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His comments come as Johnson has refused<\/u><\/a> to bring a Senate-passed foreign aid bill<\/u><\/a> to the House floor that would provide an additional $60 billion to Ukraine, as it hits two years since Russia launched its full-blown invasion. House Republicans have argued that any foreign aid spending bill must be paired with funds to secure the U.S.-Mexico border \u2014 an argument former President Trump has openly supported<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[In] the absence of having received any single border policy change from the Senate, the House will have to continue to work its own will on these important matters,\u201d Johnson said in a statement. \u201cAmerica deserves better than the Senate\u2019s status quo.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senate Republicans blocked the first attempt<\/u><\/a> at a bipartisan package, that included foreign aid and border security provisions, earlier this month. This prompted Senate Democrats to unveil the separate funding bill that would provide assistance to Ukraine and Israel, in its war against Palestinian militant group Hamas, which currently sits in limbo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another bipartisan effort was made in the House last week<\/u><\/a>, but the bill has yet to be moved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During a visit to Ukraine this week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer\u2002<\/u><\/a>(D-N.Y.) made a new plea<\/u><\/a> to the Speaker to take action, as tensions between the U.S. and Russia have heat up \u2014 most notably in the wake of the death<\/u><\/a> of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Biden\u2002<\/u><\/a>cast blame<\/u><\/a> on Putin for Navalny\u2019s passing and announced over 500 new sanctions aimed at Russia Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf Putin does not pay the price for his death and destruction, he will keep going,\u201d Biden said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The House is also contending with another potential government shutdown on March 2, if a budget isn\u2019t passed. Clyburn said he doesn\u2019t expect a government shutdown, but said pressure is on Johnson to accept a plan that has support from both sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI cannot get into the head of our Speaker,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thehill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

House Minority Whip Jim Clyburn\u2002(D-S.C.) went after Republicans Saturday, branding the GOP with a new nickname: \u201cGroupies of Putin.\u201d Clyburn, who announced he would step down from leadership in 2024, argued Speaker Mike Johnson\u2002(R-La.) and his other GOP colleagues have only been doing the business of Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2002\u201cat the behest of the former president.\u201d \u201cI think […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1226,26846,1264,4451],"class_list":["post-24161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-attack","tag-clyburn","tag-gop","tag-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24164,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24161\/revisions\/24164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}