White House Slams House Republicans for ‘Two-Week Vacation’ – By Yuval Rosenberg and Michael Rainey (The Fiscal Times) / Feb 21, 2024
White House Slams House GOP for Taking ‘Vacation’ Instead of Passing Ukraine Aid
The White House continues to slam House Republicans for heading out to a lengthy “vacation” without providing additional funding for Ukraine or addressing the border.
“The damage House Republicans are actively causing to American national security mounts every day that they insist on continuing their two-week vacation,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates wrote in a release first reported by Politico.
President Joe Biden and the White House have been criticizing Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republicans for refusing to take up a $95.3 billion supplemental spending package that was approved by the Senate on a bipartisan basis.
After making remarks Friday about the death of Russian opposition leader Aleksey Navalny, Biden laid into lawmakers about taking an extended Presidents’ Day break and the lack of Ukraine funding. “It’s about time they step up — don’t you think? — instead of going on a two-week vacation. Two weeks they’re walking away. Two weeks. What are they thinking? My God, this is bizarre,” Biden said, adding, “it’s just reinforcing all the concern and — and almost, I won’t say ‘panic,’ but real concern about the United States being a reliable ally. This is outrageous.”
