House Speaker Mike Johnson is leaving uncertain his plan for advancing wartime aid for Ukraine.
Owner of St. Marys heating and air company accused of owing thousands after abandoning jobs says he’ll refund customersSpeaker of the House Mike Johnson , R-La., waits to raise the gavel to formally conclude a joint meeting of Congress after Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida finished an address in the House chamber, Thursday, April 11, 2024, at the Capitol in Washington.
The speaker planned to huddle with his fellow House Republicans on Monday evening. But the meeting will be filled with lawmakers strongly opposed on Ukraine: Republican defense hawks, including the top lawmakers on national security committees, who want Johnson to finally take up the national security supplemental package as a bundle, are pitted against populist conservatives who are fiercely opposed to continued support for Kyiv’s fight at all.
“The gravely serious events of this past weekend in the Middle East and Eastern Europe underscore the need for Congress to act immediately,” Jeffries said. “We must take up the bipartisan and comprehensive national security bill passed by the Senate forthwith. This is a Churchill or Chamberlain moment.”
So far, 195 lawmakers have signed on to the discharge petition, about a dozen shy of the majority needed to force action on the floor. Many of the progressive Democrats holding out from signing the petition are against U.S. aid to Israel due to the Netanyahu government’s assault on Gaza that has killed thousands of civilians.
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