Posted on 04/15/2024 2:57:02 PM PDT by RandFan
The House is poised to barrel into the debate over foreign aid this week as Johnson looks to put legislation on the floor to assist embattled U.S. allies — a highly anticipated move that has been months in the making.
But the parameters of that bill, or package of bills, remain unknown, leaving lawmakers waiting to see how the Speaker approaches the politically prickly topic — especially after Iran attacked Israel over the weekend, as lawmakers sound the alarm about Ukraine’s beleaguered forces, and amid a threat by Greene to bring a motion to vacate against Johnson.
The Speaker told Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures” over the weekend that the House would “try again” this week on sending aid to Israel. When asked specifically about assistance for Ukraine, Johnson again floated sending the money in the form of a loan and adding the REPO Act — which would use frozen seized Russian assets to help Kyiv.
“I think these are ideas that I think can get consensus,” Johnson said. “And that’s what we have been working through. We will send our package. We will put something together and send it to the Senate and get these obligations completed.”
The schedule released by House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) on Sunday says “Additional legislative items related to security supplemental appropriations are possible” without disclosing further details.
House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Turner (R-Ohio) told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that Johnson “sees that the path” is for foreign aid to hit the floor this week, and predicted that the provisions pertaining to Israel and Ukraine will garner widespread support.
“I think it will have overwhelming support, both the Ukraine, Israel, and Asia packages, not just because of what’s happened with Iran escalation the conflict in the Middle East, but because these are allies that need and deserve our support,” Turner said.
But as Johnson’s foreign aid plan remains a mystery, lawmakers of all stripes are urging the Speaker to put the $95 billion Senate-passed supplemental on the floor, underscoring the urgency of the moment.
“Congress must also do its part. The national security supplemental that has waited months for action will provide critical resources to Israel and our own military forces in the region,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) wrote in a statement Saturday.
Greene, meanwhile, is maintaining her criticism as Johnson inches closer to putting Ukraine aid on the floor — even after former President Trump gave the Speaker a vote of confidence during a joint press conference Friday.
“How much money do the U.S. taxpayers have to pay now after this weekends Iranian activities? How much money will Zelenskyy get because obviously Ukraine first?” she wrote on the social platform X, later adding “Why do I feel like this week is going to be another week of America last?”
In another post responding to a reporter’s note about a schedule change this week, Greene took a shot at GOP leadership.
“We have had no GOP conference calls and have not been communicated with what any bills might be this upcoming week at all from Speaker Johnson. And I’ve asked other members, they said the same,” she wrote, followed by three cricket emojis then “from Speaker Johnson.”
The House added a handful of Israel- and Iran-related measures to the schedule Sunday night, including a bill that would require the Treasury Secretary to report on financial institutions’ involvement with Iranian government officials, and a resolution that labeled the slogan “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” as antisemitic.
Every border but our own is important.
Greene has done nothing wrong.
Why don’t the Republicans oust every Democrat?
Johnson will do as the Deep state directs him. As if they can resist spending money. Send all of it away to foreign lands and defense contractors.
So the US border invasion, including attacks on soldiers at the border, plus terrorist insurrection across the US does not deserve action, but Israel and Ukraine do?
With the Russian equipment they need to S.T.E.A.L:
Strategically
Transfer
Equipment to
Another
Location.
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Cynical but accurate.
No more foreign aid to anybody. Not even Israel. We’re broke. And it’s not our business to police the world anyway. Especially countries that have no formal treaty alliance with.
Screw the GOP.
I’m quickly running out of patience with Johnson. We have no strategic interest in bankrolling Ukraine, a criminal racket masquerading as a state, and Israel, which pushes all the buttons calculate to elicit a violent response from neighbors and then looks to American blood and treasure to make it all OK. Let them both handle their own business and leave us out of it. We have troubles at home.
Cut an equal amount from welfare programs, then go for it. No promises. Cut first.
Because the *ssholes are part of the Democrats cabal!
I hate that FKER!! Please china NUKE DC….PLEASE!!
Does anyone know the total amount that all nations have sent to Ukraine to fight the war and how much of that came from the USA?
How representative is your view do you think? I agree entirely and there’s nothing wrong with losing patience. I just wonder if your shifting views are shared by more Americans if so the Deep State have may miscalculated!
Even cowboy, the most pro-Israel poster on the site, says the same as you do so I think Americans are getting fed up with it now.
If it were up to me there would be almost no foriegn aid, and any that we do do would be payed for.
But we don’t live in that world, instead we are the world’s piggybank.😡
Stuff your blood lible.
I would also appreciate a public thank you from Israel to the US Navy. But, we lost face here. Iran thumbed thier nose at us. No one fears us under brandon.😡
LOL, are you still here?
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