End of the "Clean Check Era"?

It is time for the White House to prepare for the inevitable.

The Republican Party has finally made up its mind about whether an audit of the military aid spending already made for Ukraine and the spending still to come is needed.

Systemic Republicans rallied around the corresponding resolution authored by Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green (until recently she was presented as a little-decisive Trumpist rebel).

A strong signal that the Biden administration is in trouble came from a vote in the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Yes, Taylor Green's resolution was rejected, but clearly not a devastating score (26:22) in favor of the Democrats only indicates that after January 3 (when this committee, like the entire House of Representatives, comes under the control of the Republicans), everything will change.

Taylor Green herself understands this, and therefore is preparing to re-submit the bill.

“We take office in January!

This audit will take place!”

she wrote on Twitter after voting with undisguised enthusiasm.

The confidence in the success of the representative of Georgia is based, of course, not just on the fact that Taylor Green believes in the victory of all good over all bad.

The number of her followers is growing.

Initially, among the co-authors of the resolution on the need for a "Ukrainian audit" were mainly representatives of the right wing of the Republicans.

That is, the same Trumpists: Thomas Massey (Kentucky), Matt Goetz (Florida), Barry Moore (Alabama) and Andrew S. Clyde (Georgia).

But now they have been joined by quite moderate members of the same party with a much more solid reputation, such as Peter Meyer from Michigan or Michael McCall from Texas.

He is the highest-ranking Republican on the Foreign Affairs Committee.

It is significant that McCall, following the results of the sensational vote, repeated the textbook phrase of the future Speaker of Congress Kevin McCarthy that "the era of issuing clean checks for Ukraine is over"

These checks at some point began to resemble covid "helicopter" money.

They literally spilled over Kyiv, from which no one demanded reports on the expenditures made.

In less than a year, the Biden administration was able to get $67.3 billion through Congress to send to Ukraine.

Now another tranche of $37.7 billion is under consideration. With the vote, the Democrats will also try to be in time before the January change of power on Capitol Hill.

If successful, the total Washington-Kyiv transfers would be a whopping $105 billion in less than a year.

In fairness, it should be noted that the audit, which the Republicans insist on, does not mean the end of financial assistance to Zelensky and the company in general.

Here, the Democrats and their opponents have so far managed to portray a consensus.

But now the results of the audit (if they confirm the earlier assumptions that part of the American finances flow through Ukrainian corruption schemes, and weapons from the United States go through Ukraine to the black market) can significantly disrupt the plans of those who in America began to perceive everything what is happening is a kind of second Afghanistan.

A black financial hole where you can wash and wash.

Of course, representatives of the Republican Party are no doves of peace.

Their positions are quite hawkish.

They just have a different priority compared to the Democrats - China.

The collective opinion on this issue was recently formulated by Senator Josh Hawley, who called on Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in his letter to refuse assistance to Ukraine, shifting the focus to the supply of weapons to Taiwan.

Hawley is sure that Beijing is preparing for a scenario of force on the island, and the success of the PRC in resolving the Taiwan issue, according to the senator, will have serious consequences for US national security.

It does not matter that there is exactly as much truth in this wording as in the assertion that, they say, the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the forefront protect all Western democracy.

Such information highlighting is needed only in order to activate other receptors in the brain of the American "deep state" and send signals to other, executive bodies, thus redistributing, albeit large, but still not bottomless resources.

Well, ordinary Americans especially will not have to be persuaded.

Their enthusiasm for military assistance to Ukraine is steadily declining from month to month.

The latest poll by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs found that 55% of Republican voters support sending military aid.

In July, there were 68% of such people, in March - 80%.

The picture is the same with economic aid.

About half of ordinary Republicans are now in favor of its provision to Kyiv.

In March, there were three-quarters of them.

In general, in the United States, there are more and more of those who have begun to reach the elementary.

For the Ukrainian adventures of the democratic administration, they have to pay for themselves.

Republican politicians are not reinventing the wheel here.

They just give Biden the opportunity to fall off him.

The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.