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.

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      3 months ago

      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.

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        3 months ago

        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.