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Ryuu96 on 13 April 2024
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“The Speaker is set to travel to the former president’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida on Friday to meet with Trump and has been consulting him in recent weeks on Ukraine funding to gain his support or at least prevent him from openly opposing the package.”

On the other side of the aisle, Democrats have their own demands: Namely, they want a vote on a $95 billion Senate bill — combining aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan with humanitarian help for Gaza — which passed through the upper chamber in February with a 70-29 vote. 

“The only way we get aid to Ukraine is if the House takes up the Senate bill,” Smith said. “There may be other things, but the Senate bill needs to get a vote if Ukraine is going to get support.”

Some Republicans are offering their quiet advice, saying the only way to get a bill passed through the divided House is to realize that, whatever you do, not everyone will be happy. 

“To me there’s no question what it’s got to look like: The Senate bill. That’s what it’s going to look like,” said Rep. Greg Meeks (N.Y.), senior Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee. “Time is of the essence and that’s the only bill that will get right to the president’s desk.”

Asked what happens if border language is added, Meeks didn’t hesitate. 

“No deal,” he said.

A handful of Democrats have publicly declared that they will protect Johnson from a GOP coup if he puts the Senate-passed legislation on the floor, which would more than likely pass in a widespread bipartisan vote.

The move would incense hardline conservatives, but also be met with cheers from Ukraine supporters on both sides of the aisle — especially Democrats — a dynamic that is thrusting Johnson into a tenuous tug-of-war between keeping his job and helping the embattled U.S. ally.

“I’m one of those that’d be willing to save him,” Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas.) said Friday.

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Delay delay delay delay, he has his orders from Trump now though. What a fucking mess, even if Johnson's bill is passed (and that's not a certainty if it turns aid into a shitty loan and adds border policies) it still has to pass Senate who may block it. We may just end up with House/Senate sending it back and forth with amendments for weeks still.

If he just put the fucking Senate bill to the floor, House would have passed it, it would go straight to Biden's desk, it would be signed, MTG would vote to remove him but she's going to do that no matter what, she's a fucking psychopath who doesn't want any Ukraine aid at all in any form, Johnson trying to please every single person in his party, he's an idiot.