Home Speaker Mike Johnson introduced in a Wednesday press convention that the Home wouldn’t approve any extra support to Ukraine in gentle of President Trump’s victory and upcoming inauguration.
This comes after a second menace towards Johnson of an try to elect a brand new Speaker.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, some Freedom Caucus members imagine Mike Johnson has been an “abysmal failure” and need to substitute him.
Earlier this yr, Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA), Thomas Massie (R-KY), and Paul Gosar (R-AZ) tried to oust Johnson as Speaker with a Movement to Vacate following his repeated damaged guarantees, particularly concerning wasteful spending and international support to Ukraine.
The tried ouster got here after Johnson led Republicans to surrender a $1.2 trillion spending bill with extra assist from Democrats than Republicans, reauthorization for warrantless searches of Americans under FISA Section 702, and voted to ship an extra $60 BILLION of taxpayer cash to Ukraine, a transfer that President Trump expressly opposed. All of this furthered Biden’s agenda.
Nevertheless, solely 11 Congressmen voted for Greene’s Movement. 196 Republicans and 163 Democrats, together with former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and present Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries, voted to maintain Mike Johnson as Speaker.
However it seems that Johnson could also be taking steps in the correct course, and hopefully, it stays that method.
Johnson additionally just lately confirmed that he does have a backbone when he declared that “A person is a person, and a lady is a lady” earlier than enacting Rep. Nancy Mace’s (R-SC) proposed rule prohibiting organic males from utilizing girls’s restrooms on Capitol Hill.
Johnson was requested Wednesday whether or not he would observe Biden’s request and connect an extra $24 billion to a seamless decision, and he stated he’ll “wait and take the brand new Commander in Chief’s course on all of that.”
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Johnson: There are developments by the hour in Ukraine, I believe, as we predicted, and as I stated to all of you weeks earlier than the election, if Donald Trump is elected, it’ll change the dynamic of the Russia battle on Ukraine, and we’re seeing that occur. So, it isn’t the place that Joe Biden to make that call now. We’ve got a newly elected president, and we will wait and take the brand new Commander in Chief’s course on all of that, so I do not anticipate any Ukraine funding to come back up now.
