Posted on 04/15/2024 6:37:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
At a closed-door meeting of the House Republican Conference Monday, Speaker Mike Johnson committed to putting the stalled $96 billion foreign aid bill for Israel, Taiwan, and Ukraine on the floor for a vote on Friday evening.
This bill has been the source of much controversy since it passed the Senate in February. While a small number of Republicans have balked at helping Ukraine defend itself, The Squad and its allies don't want to send aid to Israel once again, demonstrating the Horseshoe Theory at work.
BACKGROUND:
Speaker Johnson Confirms the $96 Billion Israel-Taiwan-Ukraine Aid Bill Will Get a Vote Very Soon
$96 Billion Ukraine-Israel Assistance Bill Clears Major Senate Hurdle
Ukraine-Israel Aid Package Clears the Senate and Heads to the House
House Speaker Mike Johnson Effectively Kills Senate Supplemental Ukraine Aid Bill
Mike Johnson Holds the Line As GOP Senators Pressure Him to Bring Ukraine Bill to the House Floor
Speaker Johnson Tells Colleagues He'll Allow a Vote on the Ukraine Aid Bill in April
The plan is to introduce the three aid packages as separate bills, but the same rules will cover them. To make this happen, the Rules Committee will have to approve it, and Democrats will need to consent. At present, Johnson says he intends to allow some number of amendments to be offered to each bill.
A fourth bill that is not an aid bill will be included in the package.
A fourth bill would include a mix of other policies favored by the GOP. These are the REPO Act, which would allow the U.S. to sell seized Russian sovereign assets; the House-passed TikTok ban bill; a Lend-Lease Act for military aid; and convertible loans for economic and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine.
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This move was foreshadowed over the weekend during an interview on Fox News Channel's "Sunday Morning Future," where he said that Ukraine aid had former President Trump's blessing.
Mike Johnson to Maria Bartiromo on Trump: "I had a great visit with him at Mar-a-Lago on Friday, and he and I are 100 percent united on these big agenda items." pic.twitter.com/UmvT7VMIos— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 14, 2024
BACKGROUND: Donald Trump Offers Speaker Johnson a Fig Leaf of Respectability on Ukraine-Israel-Taiwan Aid Package
The Ukraine aid package is anticipated to require the White House to present a strategy for Ukrainian victory, require the US to release longer-range weapons to Ukraine, reinstate the lapsed lend-lease program, and create a class of loans that can be converted to grants.
Johnson doesn't seem to have received much opposition to his plan. Republican Study Committee chairman Kevin Hern and Arizona Republican Andy Biggs agree with the process.
Not everyone is happy, though.
It’s antisemitic to make Israeli aid contingent on funding Ukrainian Nazis.
These should be separate bills.— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) April 14, 2024
Iran says they are going to attack Israel soon and we’ve know all week.
Speaker Johnson could have brought a stand alone Israel aid package to the floor this week.
But instead will likely tie Israel aid to $60 billion for Ukraine next week after Israel has already been attacked…— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) April 12, 2024
What makes this so rich is that Greene voted against a standalone Israel aid package in February.
The vote is contingent upon the bill's text being made available to members by Tuesday evening.
Johnson’s going to present his package Friday?
JOHNSON: American borders can go to hell!!! Imagine what 96 billion can buy for our porous border!😡bastard!!!
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and the money is pretty much spent in forms of usa weapons on the ground already.... the bill is a choice between let them keep the weapons for free or make them pay.
This guy may as well be a Democrat. He works so hard for their priorities. He hasn’t even set an agenda for Republicans. There is no push back whatso ever. This guy is 1000% worst thr McCarthy. It’s really not close. The one policy vote, about voting, is clearly Trump’s idea and this guy is just doing it to stay in Trump’s good graces. I know Trump can’t take on everyone all at once but he really should just leave this bafoon to Marjorie.
US foreign policy isn’t to help “our guys” win wars, it’s to keep wars going (and profitable).
I've given up on these folks.
The uniparty, guilty as charged. There are no democrats or republicans in the classical sense as those days are long over.
Johnson is clearly aligning himself as a part of the insider, establishment, uniparty crowd. This doesn’t bode well for getting conservatives fired up for the coming election.
Is it a teeny weeny package?
Hey, at least it is somebody else’s money... oh, wait, never mind.
We’re not voting our way out of this.
Speaker Johnson is a traitor to the American people.
He doesn’t have one.
Russia is a state sponsor of terrorism.
so the half trillion or so these three entities have sucked out of the US taxpayers just isn’t enough so they need more more more? Time to just cut the cord.
I’ll race to the last page: he’s Bi-sexual and he now works for the Deep State.
Little Mikey scumbucket.
Americans are owned and powerless. Enjoy the remaining collapse under the corrupt, owned regime.
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