Steve Bannon issued a four-word condemnation of lawmakers after the House of Representatives passed a bill to send billions more in aid to Ukraine on Saturday.
"Traitors One and All," Bannon, a onetime White House chief strategist and longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, wrote in a post on his Gettr account.
Bannon's post included a video that Rep. Clay Higgins, a Republican from Louisiana, shared on X, formerly Twitter, that showed many Democrats cheering on the House floor, waving Ukraine flags.
"All Democrats waiving Ukrainian flags on your House floor when the bill passed sending another 60B of your treasure to fund the war machine," Higgins wrote. "100% deficit money. Borrowed on the backs of your children. Wake up America."
The House approved more than $60 billion in aid to Ukraine as it continues to fight Russia's invasion, as well as billions in aid for Israel and other allies.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson brought a series of bills to the floor despite opposition from within his own party from those who oppose sending more aid to Ukraine. In all, 210 Democrats and 101 Republicans voted for the bill, with 112 Republicans voting against it.
The whole package will go to the Senate, which could pass it as soon as Tuesday, and President Joe Biden has promised to sign it immediately.
Bannon also hit out at Johnson, writing on Gettr that Johnson—who he called a "Sanctimonious Twerp"—had "Sold Out His Country to Curry Favor with the Globalist Elites."
Other Republicans who opposed the Ukraine aid bill also took to social media to express their anger.
Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene, one of the most outspoken critics of the U.S. continuing to provide aid to Ukraine, also posted a video of her colleagues in the House chamber waving Ukrainian flags.
"Mike Johnson's House of Representatives so proud to work for Ukraine. Not the American people!!! It's despicable!" Greene wrote on X. Last month, she introduced a motion to vacate Johnson as House Speaker.
Asked if she would call for a vote to oust Johnson, she told reporters: "I'm actually going to let my colleagues go home and hear from their constituents because I think people have been too obsessed with voting for foreign wars and the murder industry here in America to actually understand how angry Americans are."
Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Republican from Colorado, called the waving of Ukraine flags by colleagues "such an embarrassing and disgusting show of America LAST politicians!"
She wrote on X: "You love Ukraine so much, get your a** over there and leave America's governing to those who love THIS country!"
Writing about the bill, President Joe Biden posted on X "Today, members of both parties in the House of Representatives voted to advance our national security interests by passing urgently needed legislation delivering critical support to Israel and Ukraine, and aid for those impacted by conflict and disasters around the world.
"I urge the Senate to quickly send this package to my desk."
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