Posted on 02/13/2024 3:32:54 PM PST by bimboeruption
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Tuesday told PunchBowl News’ Jake Sherman that he will not put the Senate aid bill on the House floor.
Last week Republican Senators voted against advancing a compromised ‘border security bill’ that would have allocated more money to foreign countries while largely ignoring the US border.
The Senate’s $118.28 billion national security supplemental package allocated $60 billion in military aid to Ukraine.
Only $20.23 billion was allocated to secure the US border amid an unprecedented invasion of military-age males from Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and China.
After this bill failed to pass the Senate last week, Schumer rolled out another supplemental aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
The Senate early Tuesday passed Schumer’s supplemental aid package and allocated $95 billion to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. 22 Republicans voted in favor of giving foreign countries money while ignoring the crisis at the US border.
The $95 billion package will now head to the House of Representatives.
However, Speaker Johnson will not bring the aid package to the floor for a vote.
“I certainly don’t right now. We’re dealing with the appropriations process. We have immediate deadlines upon us and that’s where the attention f the House is in this moment,“ Speaker Johnson told Jake Sherman.
NEWS — just caught up with @SpeakerJohnson
I asked if he thought he’d put the senate aid bill on the floor. No. He won’t.
“I certainly don’t right now. We're dealing with the appropriations process. We have immediate deadlines upon us and that's where the attention f…
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) February 13, 2024
Speaker Johnson Monday evening said of the $95 billion aid bill: “America deserves better than the Senate’s status quo.”
My statement on Senate’s failure to address the most critical aspect of national security supplemental legislation: pic.twitter.com/ENjJ0WzKsK
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) February 13, 2024
Joe Biden on Tuesday showed up one hour late to deliver remarks on the Senate’s passage of a supplemental package.
Biden angrily warned Republicans in Congress and said those who oppose funding for Ukraine would be held accountable.
“For Republicans in Congress who think they can oppose funding for Ukraine and not be held accountable, history is watching. Failure to support Ukraine will never be forgotten,” Biden said.
WATCH:
Biden: "For Republicans in Congress who think they can oppose funding for Ukraine and not be held accountable, history is watching. Failure to support Ukraine will never be forgotten." pic.twitter.com/qis8QmIhBT
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) February 13, 2024
>YAY!! Awaiting the flow of angry tears from UKRAINE’s propagandists and our resident neocon/globalists.<
Why can’t zeepers understand that America is over $34 TRILLION in debt, that the American taxpayer is having a tough time making ends meet and that our country is being invaded?
They care more about Ukraine than they care about our country.
How about if Johnson agrees to bring it for a vote and in exchange Schumer agrees to bring the House border bill to a vote?
Finally.
A Republican with a set of nads!
Good for Johnson. He appears to have a spine.
No wonder Cornyn was in a bad mood!
:)
Yep! I’m skeptical too. We’ve been down this road many many times only to be disappointed over and over again. Johnson better hold the line or else he needs to be kicked out!
THANK YOU MIKE!!!!!!!
JD Vance discussed with Tucker in a video that this bill puts forth funding for 2025 and 2026 as well. Tying the hands of the next POTUS.
Just another day at the circus.
Impeach Mayorkas and put this bill in the trash bin. Not a bad 24 hours.
On Fri, Zen Master says the Supes have scheduled a “non-argument” public session, so apparently they will rule on the CO ballot case. For such a quick ruling, I’m guessing there are NO dissents and it’s 9-0 for Trump.
History is watching? Who’s actually watching is the Biden Crime Family, the Ukrainian Mafia, the MIC, NATO and the globalist neocons.
They’ve all got their hands in the till.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
President Trump would never have demanded billions of dollars in cash and weapons to be forked over to those damned criminals. And why hasn’t our useless news media given us the stats on just how much the other “free world” countries are donating to those cutthroats over there?
bttt!
Question. When is the next continuing resolution coming up? Since have no budget.
Bravo!!! Keep up the good work Johnson!!
Dood for Johnson.
those dastardly traitors will try something again. i don’t understand the discharge petition, but it must be a very smelly discharge!
Take that Mitch you God damn piece of crap.
Updated 1/19/2024: On Thursday, Jan. 18, the House and Senate both passed a third continuing resolution (CR) for fiscal year 2024 to avoid a partial government shutdown at midnight on Friday, Jan. 19. The President signed the CR on Jan. 19. The new measure would extend the “laddered” approach from the previous CR, with the first set of appropriations bills expiring on Friday, March 1: Agriculture, Energy-Water, Military Construction-VA, and Transportation-HUD (these were previously set to expire Jan. 19). The second set of appropriations bills would expire a week later, on Friday, March 8: Commerce-Justice-Science, Defense, Financial Services-General Government, Homeland Security, Interior-Environment, Labor-HHS-Education, Legislative Branch, and State-Foreign Operations bills (these were previously set to expire Feb. 2). The CR would also extend several expiring policy deadlines to March 8.
Source: https://www.crfb.org/blogs/upcoming-congressional-fiscal-policy-deadlines
>i don’t understand the discharge petition, but it must be a very smelly discharge!<
It’s a lengthy and complicated process.
Here’s an explanation: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R45920
>JD Vance discussed with Tucker in a video that this bill puts forth funding for 2025 and 2026 as well. Tying the hands of the next POTUS.<
JD was on Bannon’s War Room (Real America’s Voice channel) yesterday morning sounding the alarm.
If you don’t watch RAV, you’re missing out.
U R CORRECT,
THIS IS ABOUT THE SURVIVAL OF THE USA.
VOTE DEMOCRATS AND RINOS OUT.
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