PBS 'Washington Week' Gang Hails Speaker Johnson Finding His 'Inner Reagan' on Ukraine


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NewsBusters— The latest, foreign-policy-facing episode of Washington Week with The Atlantic found the weekly journalistic roundtable quite comfortable with both American hard and soft power -- as long as President Biden and the Democrats hold the reins. Jeffrey Goldberg, moderator of Washington Week and editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine, was joined by Eugene Daniels of Politico, Seung Min Kim of the Associated Press, Vivian Salama of The Wall Street Journal, and Graeme Wood of The Atlantic. There...

Washington Post—Mike Johnson's evolution on Ukraine aid as House speaker - The Washington Post. From backbencher to House speaker, Mike Johnson has done a dramatic turnabout on aid to Ukraine. He may lose his job as speaker because of it.

MSNBC—Speaker Johnson continues facing backlash over Ukraine aid. After months of GOP infighting, House lawmakers have passed foreign aid funding for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. House Speaker Johnson is facing Republican calls to resign over the funding.

Washington Examiner—Speaker Johnson did the right thing for Ukraine. His stature is now enhanced.. The overwhelming congressional votes for aid to Taiwan, Israel, and Ukraine show just how out of touch the isolationists and Ukraine skeptics on both ends of the American political spectrum are. They also show why it was inexcusable for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to wait so long to engineer passage of the aid bills. Nonetheless, […]