On Monday, House Speaker Mike Johnson presented a strategy to promote foreign aid to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan in separate bills and a fourth package combining Republican national security interests.
Johnson told reporters about the plan after a “fruitful and productive” GOP conference meeting Monday night. The speaker did not mention a TikTok ban, but parliamentarians exiting the meeting seemed to favour it. He said national security bills will be funded similarly to the Senate supplementary aid deal.
Johnson called Ukraine aid the GOP conference's most “controversial” item, but he highlighted that most of the plan would replenish American weapons, which would benefit American employment.
Johnson said members will have 72 hours to peruse the bills before they come to the floor. If the text is revealed Tuesday, as Johnson expects, the House may not vote on the four bills until Friday afternoon or evening. The House may leave Thursday afternoon and recess next week.
Johnson said the GOP conference wanted to vote on the foreign aid items separately and that he would prefer to send each bill to the Senate, but no decision has been made on whether to package them.
Biden rips Trump on everything but his trial in Pennsylvania. Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., said members were “excited” to vote this week and hope the House passes the legislation.
“It doesn't make for a really precise soundbite, but there is a legislative mechanism by which we can take up these votes but not transmit the bills until the Senate acts,” Gaetz said. We can use that to pressure the Senate to act on our drilling and border agendas.
Border security is the nation's top concern. Donalds remarked that for this town to focus on Ukraine while ignoring our southern border is disgusting and a slap in the face of the American people.
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