House Speaker Mike Johnson is scrambling - both to keep his job, and to pass several bills to devote billions in US taxpayer funds to foreign entanglements that Johnson's conservative base has little-to-no appetite for.
Following Republican outcry - Johnson included a fifth bill which would revive the Secure Border Act - so US border security is essentially an afterthought.
In order to appease said base, Johnson - who faces a growing threat of removal by House conservatives - has added a US border security measure to the package, which he told lawmakers the House would vote on Saturday night.
Seriously? "To put it bluntly, I would rather send bullets to Ukraine than American boys," said Johnson, the Washington Times reports.
Conservatives slam Rep. Bob Good called it a "Joke," arguing that Johnson is more worried about Ukraine than the US-Mexico border - which the speaker had previously promised to pair together.
Rep. Thomas Massie said on X that Johnson "Plans to pass the rule for the $100 billion foreign aid package using Democrats on the Rules Committee," adding "This is the Uniparty" reveal.
We are not going to surrender that accountability tool, particularly in a time when we are seeing America's interests subjugated to foreign interests abroad." -The Hill The controversy comes as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has repeatedly threatened to drop a motion to vacate on Johnson over his willingness to negotiate deals with Democrats on key issues such as federal spending, government surveillance, and most recently - Ukraine aid.
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