{"id":2448,"date":"2023-10-13T20:16:23","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T00:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/us-republican-speaker-nominee-jordan-known-as-ukraine-aid-skeptic\/13\/10\/2023\/"},"modified":"2023-10-13T20:16:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T00:16:23","slug":"us-republican-speaker-nominee-jordan-known-as-ukraine-aid-skeptic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/us-republican-speaker-nominee-jordan-known-as-ukraine-aid-skeptic\/13\/10\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"US Republican speaker nominee Jordan known as Ukraine aid skeptic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>By Patricia Zengerle<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. Representative Jim Jordan, who won the Republican nomination to lead the House of Representatives on Friday, has voted against most aid to Ukraine as it fights a Russian invasion and told reporters he would object to further aid if he became speaker.<\/p>\n<p>The House has been without a speaker since Oct. 3, when eight Republicans joined Democrats to oust <button class=\"caas-xray-inline caas-xray-entity caas-xray-pill\" data-ylk=\"cid:Kevin_McCarthy;pos:1;elmt:wiki;sec:pill-inline-entity;elm:pill-inline-text;itc:1;cat:OfficeHolder;\" data-entity-id=\"Kevin_McCarthy\">Kevin McCarthy<\/button>, the first time in U.S. history a speaker has been removed from the position.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy&#8217;s removal raised concerns about the future of aid to Ukraine, since many of his possible successors have opposed more assistance to Kyiv, in addition to the $113 billion already approved since Russia invaded in February 2022.<\/p>\n<p>A majority of Republicans backed the hardline conservative Jordan in a closed-door meeting on Friday, but he appeared well shy of the 217 votes he would need to win the job in a final vote expected next week.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have a narrow 221-212 majority in the House, and many join Democrats in backing Ukraine aid, but the next speaker could quash more assistance before a proposal reaches the House floor if he opposed the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Military and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine is a priority of Democratic President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration.<\/p>\n<p>A Ukraine &#8220;report card&#8221; by Defending Democracy Together&#8217;s &#8220;Republicans for Ukraine&#8221; campaign gave Jordan an &#8220;F very poor&#8221; rating for his past votes against Ukraine aid.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan has told reporters he would not move forward with additional aid for Ukraine if elected speaker, saying, &#8220;The most pressing issue in Americans&#8217; minds is not Ukraine. It is the border situation and crime on the streets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His office did not immediately respond on Friday to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Opponents of the assistance call the funds excessive spending or accuse Kyiv of corruptly failing to keep track of the money, which U.S. and Ukrainian officials deny.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy was ousted just three days after he led the House to pass a spending bill that included no new money for Ukraine, highlighting the reluctance of some of his caucus to back Ukraine funds.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Patricia Zengerle; editing by Grant McCool)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/us-republican-speaker-nominee-jordan-223646202.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) &ndash; U.S. Representative Jim Jordan, who won the Republican nomination to lead the House of Representatives on<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/us-republican-speaker-nominee-jordan-known-as-ukraine-aid-skeptic\/13\/10\/2023\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}