The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives are fighting over aid to Ukraine again because Speaker of the House Mike Johnson can’t take ‘yes’ for an answer. For weeks, Johnson said he wouldn’t pass Ukraine funding if there weren’t provisions in the bill for securing the U.S. southern border. Then the Senate developed legislation with all that, but Donald Trump told Republicans not to give President Biden a win, so Senate GOPers killed it. Now, the Senate has passed a separate bill by a vote of 70-29, with funding for Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel. But Johnson has preemptively declared the legislation is ‘dead on arrival’ in the House, and he won’t allow a vote on the bill. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is pretty done with Johnson. https://twitter.com/amyklobuchar/status/1757270630154600766 From Politico:
Mitch McConnell urged Speaker Mike Johnson to allow a vote on Ukraine aid in an interview on Tuesday afternoon, though the Senate minority leader said he would not be “so presumptuous as to tell him how to do it.”
“We’ve heard all kinds of rumors about whether the House supports Ukraine or doesn’t. It seems to me that the easy way to solve that would be to vote. And I hope the speaker will find a way to allow the House to work its will on the issue of Ukraine aid and the other parts of the bill as well,” McConnell said.
President Biden also stepped up and urged the House to pass the legislation, declaring, “History is watching. Failure to support Ukraine at this critical moment will never be forgotten.” https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1757489241066541220
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