When Representative Chip Roy (R., Texas) announced his nomination of Byron Donalds (R., Fla.) for speaker of the House, he gave a lengthy recitation of Donalds’s credentials. And he said that things needed to change “in this town” and that Congress needed to gather like this — all members assembled — and debate things like Ukraine.
Ukraine being the first issue that was mentioned, I began to wonder if the 20 rebels are partly motivated by Kevin McCarthy’s public distress cry and warning to Mitch McConnell and others that Republican back-benchers were getting restless on the question of funding the war in Ukraine, which led McConnell and Dems to pass a vast appropriation for Ukraine in the final days of the last Congress.
Is this — hope beyond hopes — my longed-for sign that members of Congress want their constitutional responsibilities in foreign policy back?