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Joan E Grevein Washington

Hard-right House Republicans are against Ukraine aid – and they seem to be in charge

A middle-aged white man with dark brown hair combed away from his face, in a medium-blue suit and pink floral tie stands in an outdoor passageway.
The day after Matt Gaetz accused Kevin McCarthy of conspiring with Biden on Ukraine, McCarthy was out of a job. Photograph: Andrew Harnik/AP

As he excoriated Kevin McCarthy over his leadership of the House Republican conference last week, hard-right congressman Matt Gaetz accused the then speaker of cutting a “secret side deal” with Joe Biden to provide additional funding to Ukraine amid its ongoing war against Russia.

“It is becoming increasingly clear who the speaker of the House already works for, and it’s not the Republican conference,” Gaetz, who represents a solidly Republican district in Florida, said in a floor speech at the time.

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