House Passes Ukraine Bill, but Johnson Might Lose Speakership

The House passed a four-bill $95 billion international help package deal over the weekend that features $60 billion in further help for Ukraine. The invoice may price House Speaker Mike Johnson his job. 

The help package deal handed in a 311-112 vote with the unanimous support of Democrats and 101 Republicans voting in favor of the invoice.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., threatened to introduce a movement to take away Johnson, R-La., from his place as speaker if he introduced the funding for Ukraine to the House ground for a vote. 

“I think she’s looking at the totality of what’s come across the floor over the past few months, and she is expressing extreme disappointment with that,” Ryan Walker, govt vice chairman of Heritage Action for America, says of Greene. (The Daily Signal is the information outlet of The Heritage Foundation, of which Heritage Action is the grassroots arm.)

Greene left Washington on the finish of final week with out introducing the movement to vacate the speaker but stated throughout an interview Sunday on Fox News that she nonetheless deliberate to attempt to oust Johnson. 

“Mike Johnson’s speakership is over,” Greene stated on “Sunday Morning Futures,” including, “He needs to do the right thing—to resign and allow us to move forward in a controlled process. If he doesn’t do so, he will be vacated.” 

Less than one yr after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted from the function, Capitol Hill is bracing for the potential of one other speakership battle when Congress returns to Washington subsequent week. 

Walker joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to clarify the rationale for the sharp divide in Congress over the international help package deal and the probability Johnson will face elimination as speaker. Walker additionally explains the place Congress is getting the cash to ship to Ukraine. 

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