Cheney Attacks Republicans Who Want To Curb Ukraine Spending
In the wake of her resounding primary defeat ahead of last year’s congressional elections, former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney vowed that she would remain a loud, if widely despised, voice of opposition to former President Donald Trump from within the Republican Party.
“I think that defeating him is going to require a broad and united front of Democrats, Republicans and independents,” she said of the former president. “And that’s what I intend to be part of.”
Cheney spokesperson Jeremy Adler also addressed her future ambitions at the time, explaining: “In coming weeks, Liz will be launching an organization to educate the American people about the ongoing threat to our Republic, and to mobilize a unified effort to oppose any Donald Trump campaign for president.”
Speculation abounded regarding a Cheney bid for president, but in the months that followed she has remained largely irrelevant within American politics. Meanwhile, Trump has mounted a campaign that has dominated the rest of the Republican presidential field.
This week, however, Cheney resurfaced — at least on social media — with a statement criticizing those in the GOP who believe that, after sending more than $100 billion in U.S. taxpayer money to prop up the Ukrainian military, America should rethink its position.
While there is substantial disagreement within the party over future Ukraine funding, Cheney opted to take the argument to an absurdist level by comparing fiscal conservatives to Nazi sympathizers and appeasers prior to World War II.
In a post on Saturday, she wrote: “Members of the House and Senate who are voting to deny Ukraine assistance on the 85th anniversary of Neville Chamberlain’s 1938 ‘peace in our time’ speech should read some history: Appeasement didn’t work then. It won’t work now.”
Republicans have largely been on board for well over a year of constant spending and delivering stockpiles of military equipment to Ukraine, so it is hard to describe the current push for some fiscal restraint as an effort to “appease” Russia.
Furthermore, conservative outlets like Red State argue that Cheney’s own positions while in Congress contributed to the unrest in places like Syria and Libya, so she is not the most reputable source of such criticism.
