{"id":80243,"date":"2026-10-20T12:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T17:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/republicans-push-back-on-donald-trumps-wavering-support-for-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T12:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T17:55:14","slug":"republicans-push-back-on-donald-trumps-wavering-support-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/republicans-push-back-on-donald-trumps-wavering-support-for-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans push back on Donald Trump\u2019s wavering support for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GOP lawmakers threaten to pull support for president\u2019s agenda after Russia diesel deal and sanctions pause<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/oct\/20\/donald-trump-midterms-republicans-democrats-north-carolina-latest-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A handful of Republicans have spoken out against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/oct\/19\/no-us-warning-russian-strikes-kyiv-power-plants-zelenskyy-ukraine-trump\">softening stance on Russia<\/a>, threatening to pull financial support for his agenda over his \u201cembarrassing\u201d handling of the Ukraine war.<\/p>\n<p>Don Bacon, an outgoing congressman in Nebraska, condemned Trump\u2019s actions \u2013 which include a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/09\/trump-putin-russian-diesel-ukraine\">stunning agreement to buy Russian diesel<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/17\/trump-puts-new-russia-sanctions-passed-by-congress-on-hold-amid-deepening-row-with-ukraine\">pausing of sanctions on Moscow<\/a> \u2013 as \u201cabsolutely disgraceful\u201d and accused the US president of cozying up to a \u201cwar criminal\u201d in Vladimir Putin, his Russian counterpart.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/20\/republicans-push-back-trump-ukraine-russia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP lawmakers threaten to pull support for president\u2019s agenda after Russia diesel deal and sanctions pause US politics live \u2013 latest updates A handful of Republicans have spoken out against Donald Trump\u2019s softening stance on Russia, threatening to pull financial support for his agenda over his \u201cembarrassing\u201d handling of the Ukraine war. Don Bacon, an &#8230; <a title=\"Republicans push back on Donald Trump\u2019s wavering support for Ukraine\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/republicans-push-back-on-donald-trumps-wavering-support-for-ukraine\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Republicans push back on Donald Trump\u2019s wavering support for Ukraine\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}