House Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled a plan to fund the U.S.'s foreign aid priorities amid mounting pressure and global conflicts.
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., unveiled a plan for moving foreign aid through the House of Representatives during a closed-door meeting with Republican lawmakers on Monday. The Republican leader had been under pressure to act on Israel and Ukraine funding as the situation in both conflicts grows more dire, while also navigating fraught divisions in the House GOP conference over conditions for giving aid overseas.
We won't be voting on the Senate supplemental in its current form, but we will vote on each of these measures separately in four different pieces.
Breaking apart the Senate’s supplemental package was an idea backed by a significant share of House Republicans. However, it also appears to be a move aimed at appeasing fiscal hawks on Johnson’s right flank who otherwise would have likely attempted to block the bills from getting to the floor. The two GOP lawmakers who shared details of the plan with Fox News Digital said there was more support for the plan in the room than opposition. 'I think it's a good plan.
Both Freedom Caucus Chair Bob Good, R-Va., and its policy chair, Chip Roy, R-Texas, suggested they were not optimistic that border security measures would ultimately be part of the deal, despite their demands. 'I think that the border security component will come from the members,' Good told Fox News Digital.
just think it's the wrong direction to go. Our border is the No. 1 policy issue that voters care about all across the country. And the Senate has not taken up … our border package that we sent over there; they're just demanding that the House vote to fund Ukraine, vote to fund Taiwan and send more money to Israel, claiming that our military is running out of ammunition,' Greene said.
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