{"id":120922,"date":"2024-02-12T23:10:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T23:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/12\/donald-trumps-nato-comments-might-blow-up-in-his-face\/"},"modified":"2024-02-12T23:10:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T23:10:21","slug":"donald-trumps-nato-comments-might-blow-up-in-his-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/12\/donald-trumps-nato-comments-might-blow-up-in-his-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump\u2019s NATO Comments Might Blow Up in His Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap\">Over the previous a number of weeks, <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> had principally been profitable in goading Republicans in Washington to oppose a funding deal that would come with billions in navy help for Ukraine. But on Saturday, after Trump declared that he would \u201cnot protect\u201d US allies from Russia if he felt that their NATO contributions had been inadequate, the ex-president\u2019s strain marketing campaign out of the blue hit a snag.<\/p>\n<p>Less than 24 hours later, 18 Republican senators <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/02\/11\/us\/republican-senators-ukraine-israel-bill.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">joined<\/a> their Democratic colleagues on Sunday to advance a international help package deal that Trump had particularly urged them to oppose, writing on Truth Social, \u201cARE YOU LISTENING U.S. SENATE(?), NO MONEY IN THE FORM OF FOREIGN AID SHOULD BE GIVEN TO ANY COUNTRY UNLESS IT IS DONE AS A LOAN, NOT JUST A GIVEAWAY.\u201d The supplemental\u00a0funding package deal supplies $95 billion in help to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan\u2014however doesn&#8217;t embrace the sweeping immigration modifications and border-security enhancements constructed into the bipartisan deal that did not survive a procedural vote final week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">In a flooring speech Sunday, Senate minority chief <strong>Mitch McConnell<\/strong> seemingly supplied a direct rebuttal to Trump\u2019s feedback in South Carolina. \u201cI know it\u2019s become quite fashionable in some circles to disregard the global interests we have as a global power,\u201d stated McConnell. \u201cThis is idle work for idle minds. And it has no place in the United States Senate.\u201d Senator <strong>Thom Tillis,<\/strong> a Republican from North Carolina who voted to advance the invoice, blamed Trump\u2019s aides for the feedback and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/02\/11\/gop-senators-defy-trump-by-advancing-foreign-aid-00140868\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">instructed Politico<\/a> that extra Republicans would possible again the measure as soon as amendments had been filed. Even Senator <strong>Rand Paul,<\/strong> usually a fierce defender of Trump, referred to as the comment a \u201cstupid thing to say.\u201d (Paul has however <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/senate-vote-foreign-aid-package-procedural-hurdle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vowed<\/a> to impede the international help package deal at each flip.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Despite the invoice\u2019s new bevy of Republican supporters, its destiny stays unsure. The Senate was set to start a two-week recess on Monday, nevertheless it\u2019s now anticipated to remain in session till a vote on ultimate passage might be held later this week. Republicans are prone to situation their assist on coverage and funding modifications they really feel would curtail migrant crossings on the US-Mexico border. The fraught marriage of international help and border safety\u2014now an ingrained Republican template\u2014has led to months of stalled negotiations. Some Senate Republicans couched their opposition to the final funding package deal by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/why-republicans-are-attacking-james-lankford-immigration-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claiming<\/a> it was not stringent sufficient, although it will have supplied billions in emergency funding for ICE and its migrant detention facilities, Customs and Border Protection, and extra border fortifications.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Over the previous a number of weeks, Donald Trump had principally been profitable in goading Republicans in Washington to oppose a funding deal that would come with billions in navy help for Ukraine. But on Saturday, after Trump declared that he would \u201cnot protect\u201d US allies from Russia if he felt that their NATO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":120924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-120922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}