McCarthy not on board for defense supplemental championed by Senate GOP

Published June 6, 2023 2:21pm ET



House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), fresh off of securing a debt limit deal averting an economic crisis, said he wouldn’t support a supplemental defense bill Senate Republicans have pushed to increase funding for Ukraine and get around limits to the Pentagon budget. The supplemental is “not going anywhere” in the House, McCarthy told Punchbowl News.

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