Speaker Mike Johnson On Collision Course With Sen. Mitch McConnell Over Ukraine Aid

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are set to vote this week on an emergency aid package for Israel that leaves out funding for other U.S. allies facing critical threats, including Ukraine and Taiwan.

“So at the risk of repeating myself: The threats facing America and our allies are serious, and they’re intertwined. If we ignore that fact, we do so at our own peril,” he warned. “We’ve got to realize that the speaker of the Republican-controlled House is the leader of the party,” Sen. Ron Johnson said Tuesday in a not-so-subtle shot at McConnell. “He’s making some calls, and we in the minority of the Senate ought to follow his lead and not undermine him.”

“I think the Democrats will have to accept a really serious U.S.-Mexico border protection bill in order to get our people on board,” McConnell said at a weekly news conference. Democrats flatly rejected the House GOP bill providing aid to Israel on the grounds that it fails to include assistance to Ukraine but does“This House GOP proposal is clearly designed to divide Congress on a partisan basis,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday.

 

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