The Speaker has promised to push forward with a Ukraine aid package once the House returns from a two-week break.
Representative Don Bacon acknowledged Sunday that it is “possible” that Speaker Mike Johnson will lose the top House job over an impending vote on aid to Ukraine. “I’m not going to deny it,” the Nebraska conservative told NBC’s Kristen Welker.
The comment comes as the House enters the second half of a two-week recess, which came on the heels of a tense fight over a government funding bill that barely averted a shutdown. Johnson entered the break promising to “turn our attention” to Ukraine, an issue that has divided the fractious House GOP caucus and kept the U.S. government from approving an aid package, even as the Senate passed a $95 billion bill in February.
George Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has long been staunchly opposed to U.S. aid to Ukraine, filed a motion to vacate Johnson’s speakership right as the House went into recess, warning that Johnson “should not bring funding for Ukraine” to the House floor. Greene has yet to say when she plans to move forward with the motion.
C’mon. Let’s go for the hat trick
Who’s gonna be the next one with the dunce cap?
Good chance that it’d be Jeffries. It might not be in his interest or Democrats to take it, but the possibility is sitting right there.
Johnson is an idiot if he took the gravel without getting rid of the vacate rule that they added. That is going to make doing anything impossible
There is no way that rule would get removed without Democratic support.
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The only issue is whether the Democrats are willing to negotiate with a rump Republican party for support and what that support will entail. It seems like Democrats are willing to negotiate with Johnson in a way they didn’t feel they could with McCarthy.
Iirc, they offered to negotiate with McCarthy, but he turned them down (according to him, anyway). Though by that point he had already broken several promises to them so if they really didn’t even try I wouldn’t be surprised either.
The Dems did try to negotiate with McCarthy and he stabbed them in the back.
Dems aren’t the ones keeping the rule around.
Dems should cancel out these removals otherwise speakers are just gonna move more toward MTG and her pro-Russian agenda. Give them incentive to not be complete during dickheads
Damned if they do and damned if they don’t. They either get condemned for helping keep a GOP speaker in place or they get criticized for not helping and getting stuck another freedom caucus pick speaker, after they bicker for a month.
It’s not possible for MTGs eyes to come any closer together. They’re at their closest for the year right now!
Not with that attitude
