Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) unveiled a gambit to burst a legislative logjam and unleash a four-vote flood including a standalone vote on tens of billions in American taxpayer aid to Ukraine.
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Speaker Johnson's Ignominious Betrayal Authored by David Stockman via David Stockman's Contra Corner, Speaker Johnson’s ignominious betrayal of fiscal sanity might well be the death knell for the GOP. He is apparently risking his speakership on behalf of $95 billion of foreign aid boondoggles that Uncle Sam cannot remotely afford, and which actually provide zero benefit to the homeland security of America. And we do mean zero, as in nothing, nichts, nada, nyet and nugatory, as we...
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The planned vote on a foreign aid package is validation of a White House strategy to court the speaker behind the scenes while letting him find his own path.
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If the speaker can wade through the conservative blowup over Ukraine aid, even his critics predict he might be able to hold on until November.
I don't pretend to even understand the moving parts of how this is supposed to work. But almost out of the blue Speaker Mike Johnson has decided to go all-in on an aid package for Ukraine
Momentum builds to oust Johnson from House speakership (First column, 4th story, link) Related stories:Second Lawmaker Joins Push
Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.), chair of the House Freedom Caucus, in a Tuesday interview, downplayed the likelihood that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) would ultimately face an effort by his conference to oust him as speaker. In an interview on NewsNation's "The Hill" on Tuesday, Good said he was committed to working on passing urgent legislation